It says no positions are open for the 2015 to 2016 year and doesn't have the following year listed. If you ever feel like getting the hell out of the rat race (and I'm sure you'd find gainful employment as well) then let me introduce you to this: http://www.kentshill.org/page....
Somebody here, on this very site, may make some sizable donations and be willing to put in a good word.;-) I might be biased but it is an excellent school, one of the oldest preparatory schools in the country, actually. There's even a special trust that enables a few students (three per year) to attend as financially disadvantaged people - those students even get a stipend because it would be harmful for them to attend the school with a bunch of wealthy students and not have some money of their own to spend. The trust covers all expenses, including living expenses so that the kids can stay on campus.
I don't know but I'd suspect that right about this time of year would be a good time for those who are interested to consider sending an application there way. There are other loans and scholarships available beyond just those three. The alumni do a moderately good job at helping out and someone usually finds a way to fill in the rest.
As near as I can tell, he's from Chicago and a native of Chicago area. He's not even an ESL person. I could very easily be mistaken because I've gleaned such by reading (interpreting?) his comments over the years. I'm half convinced it's intentional as he never seems to respond. If so, it's like the longest manually typed troll to hit Slashdot. There's something to be said for that - even APK has decided to abandon us (he won - we can't prove him wrong) and cow guy didn't even stick around for a full year. Not even apps man stuck it out for a year. Not ol' Joe, though. He's been steadily typing gibberish for years now.
That explains it a bit better, thanks. That was not common knowledge when I read the book. If it was, I don't recall it being discussed in class. This was still in the late 1960s or early 1970s I should think. Yeah, I graduated in 1974 and I think it was in high school that we read it. Probably my sophomore year, I guess - I'm not really sure. That was quite a few years ago. Hmm... Yeah, I was 17 when I graduated. Wow, that was a long time ago. Ah well...:/ Thanks.
Yeah, as mentioned - I don't imagine it will amount to much per individual but, in aggregate, it may mean something. Then, with standing, we can get precedent. If we can get precedent then we can work on things like class actions. It still doesn't mean a whole hell of a lot for the individual but it *might* mean more appropriate levels of accountability for those who failed to keep the data secure.
It is not, by any means, ideal. However, it's a possibility. The damages may be small and that's okay as they add up if enough people are harmed. We just need to get them to accept that the damages might be minimal (but so aren't things like emotional harm) but that they truly exist. Then we just need to get it in front of a jury and have a pretty girl cry about how it ruined her life. A few days of testimony like that and we might get a precedent. Might...:(
They're already out there. They've already been shown to be unreliable. They've already demonstrated that they're not a desired product by the lack of sales.
Can you name one single "smart gun" model? No? That pretty much proves the point. If you refresh the thread, you'll find some links - including some test results that show it is unreliable (so far). You could have also used your favorite search engine.
I have no qualms with "smart guns" being made available to the public or to the military. None at all. In fact, I wish them luck in making a viable product and hope that it enables more people to be comfortable with firearm ownership. The more choices the better off we'll be. Competition is good for business and for the consumer.
If you haven't heard it in the discussion then that's because you haven't been listening - or are only listening to the people in power and they never think things through very well.
What it boils down to is that there are inherent risks that go along with both liberties and freedom. Freedom can always be used to take away someone else's rights. You can be less free and have fewer liberties if you're scared to accept the risks but I'd rather we not base our legislation entirely on cowardice.
Err... If you're not familiar with the terms: You are free to kill me. You are not at liberty to do so. If I try to take away your freedom, you have the right to kill me.
Freedom is risky. Bad things happen to good people. There is no way to prevent that so long as there are free people. The best way to reduce the levels of harm seem to be ways that result in a happy, healthy, productive, environment where people are treated like equals and have the ability to make their own choices.
Well, to be fair, I *am* a "trained marine" [sic] so I dare say that I stand a reasonable chance. Or, more accurately, I stand a reasonable chance because it's highly unlikely that a Marine (all Marines are riflemen - even the Lady Marines, cooks, clerks, laundry, and accountants) is going to obey an unlawful order to shoot me and it's also unlikely that they'll support a government that issues such orders.
The FBI? Please... I was stationed in Quantico and visited a popular civilian range quite frequently. They shoot about as well as your regular police officer - which is not that well.
For the record, I don't have any issue at all with the idea of "smart guns" and I think you should be able to make the choice to buy one if you want. I think you'll have better luck with smarter firearm owners but nobody ever listens to me. It's okay, I'm used to it.
I'd expect quite a few on the left to "come out" against it - should it ever reach the point of being a requirement, enacted by law. I'm pretty friggen' far to the left of most any elected official (except maybe Bernie but I'm still to the left of him in some areas) and you can be damned sure that I'm against mandating these - ever.
I am not against them being researched nor am I against allowing people to choose such things. It's also important to note that I'm on the left for far different reasons than most elected officials, as well. However, I've typed that out enough times. Suffice to say, I'm an actual sane Libertarian and not the propagandized caricature. I'll elaborate if I must but Wikipedia has a fine article on the subject.
I'd like a wearable that allows me to pull up information about anything in visual range and extend out from there. I realized this when I was on the Skyway in Buffalo, NY. I wanted to know when the Skyway was built, what the max throughput was, what the averages where, elevation, duration of construction, how it was constructed, if there were accidents, and then I wanted to be able to look at the buildings and get even more information like that - including floor plans and whatnot.
I also realized it would be a horrible distraction while driving. It might work, for snippets or when parked, as a part of the HUD. I was driving up to Niagara Falls - it would be a combination tour guide and documentary, all in my own vision and ears. I'd find that quite handy.
They are children. We've always sent the kids off to war. You quite literally get a Good Conduct Medal for just keeping your shit squared away and not pissing anyone off. You get awards for being able to fire your weapon accurately - I have two. No, they don't all mean a fuck of a lot but they're much the same as insignia to those who know how to read them. You're, for your own reasons, placing far more stock in them than is needed. I've never counted but I suspect that there's a whole bunch that haven't a damned thing to do with heroics at all.
At any rate, they are children. We're still sending our kids off to wars that we, the adults, cause. It's not the old that are out there on the front lines - until things get really bad. It's the young, the people who may even still be growing in height and kids who haven't even finished their brain development. It's far easier to condition a still developing brain than it is to work on one that's older. If you don't like that then go take a kid's place for them if you're still young enough to get in. Otherwise, you missed the chance to do what you can to help work on the problems you see.
Wait, what? You don't actually believe you're entitled to lawfully purchase anything you want - do you? They're not exactly required to make everything available to you. I know that might sound odd but you're not actually entitled to view those movies. Sheesh...
Also, why are you wearing a dress and gloves while raking your lawn? It does look comfy but the gloves really stand out.
At any rate, we all know copyright's absurdly long but one doesn't necessarily have a right to access anything they want - no matter how easy it would be or how silly it is to not make it available. You're perfectly free to not provide lawful products to Zanzibar if you want. It's silly not to but it is your right. It might be annoying, frustrating, and straight up stupid - but we're not entitled to everything we want.
I just accept that I'm a horrible person because I have both time and means to get most anything I want but I still pirate music and documentaries. I'm okay with that. On the scale of horrors that I could commit, well, that's pretty trivial. I pay for Netflix and Hulu and never actually use 'em, so there's that. Actually, over NYE weekend, I gave my Netflix name and password to someone else - a someone that actually visits this site and comments fairly frequently. I'm not only a horrible person but I enable others to be as bad as I am. (I'm pretty sure that Netflix is only supposed to be shared with members of the household. I have never actually read Hulu's policy.)
At any rate, being able to lawfully buy Song of the South and Pinocchio and Emperor of the Night and the others is immaterial to the argument. If it's unavailable to lawfully purchase that doesn't make pirating it any more justified - it just means you're now not only taking away the rights of the rights holder in two ways instead of one.
I usually avoid posting in these types of threads because, really, I'm not a gamer and I do pirate music and documentaries - I just admit that I'm a horrible person. At any rate, over the years of having these debates, I've kind of formalized my standard debate response. It works reasonably well and I've had people try to shoot holes in it before (which is something I truly enjoy and there's no ego involved so I'm okay with being wrong and modifying my argument) and this one has held up fairly well for a while now:
That covers most of it - though I throw in some mean and nasty just to be a prick because they've got Manning in Snowden in their signature (I'm quite a fan of Snowden) while they're arguing that it is okay to abuse other people and strip them of their rights. The gist of it is, depriving someone of the fruits of their labor is what we called slavery. The pirate is using something without having paid for the right to do so, thus depriving them of their rights and their liberty to be compensated for their work by those who make use of it - in the manner that they insist on (so long as such is lawful, of course).
It's copyright - the word "right" is in the name for a reason. You have a right to control access to the outcome of your labor. When you don't have that right, you are a slave. If they want to give it away they can. If they want to license it then they can do that. If they want to sell it with all rights included - including distribution then that's okay too. The pirate does not have that right.
I think a legitimate argument could be made that those few that crack the DRM for their legally purchased games, so long as they go no further than that, shouldn't fall into that category as a fair use exemption to copyright. I also think copyright should not last nearly as long as it does. I also don't think that one has a right to everything they want - so if it's not available then it sucks to be them. They probably can't afford lots of things, that doesn't mean they're entitled to have those things.
What an interesting signature you have - and all the more amusing when you so casually talk about taking away the rights of others.
As I've mentioned, I'm a huge fan of Snowden and I don't want to project but I suspect he'd not be impressed with someone who so casually takes away someone else's enumerated rights for their own gain. Maybe those who want their 4th Amendment Rights should go live in their own city too or is it just the rights you want? You want the right to privacy and to be secure in your papers (presumably - seeing as you too believe Snowden is a hero) but also want to give up all your rights (which is what anarchy is, by the way).
You're just a whole fruity bowl of logical inconsistencies, entitlement, and hypocrisy. I don't think I've ever seen quite that same combination or at that great a scale before. I'm truly flabbergasted as to how you manage to rationalize all those inconsistencies. I can only presume you've not actually given any thought to it.
Do you know what it means when a person doesn't have a right to the fruits of their labor? Slavery... We outlawed that but, well, maybe that's your one logical consistency in that you don't believe that people should have rights. I'm not sure how you managed to fit Snowden into your signature. I'm kind of wondering if you have any original thoughts of your own or if you just parrot what looks popular without bothering to see how those ideas all mesh together as one.
Yes, when you infringe on copyright you're taking someone's rights away. It's right there in the name. I dare say that taking away someone's liberty is a crime worse than theft. I'm pretty sure you'll still figure out a way to rationalize it but you may want to reach a point in life where you're at least honest with yourself. I, for instance, pirate documentaries and music because I'm a horrible person and an asshole. I take away their rights for my own ease of access - it's not even about the money, I've got money. I pay for both Netflix and Hulu but never use 'em. I just pirate that shit or find someone who has and I stream it. Why? I'm a self-centered, lazy, prick.
At least man up and admit it to yourself. In the mean time, you do Snowden a disservice by associating his name with you. That's really cool of you.
To be fair, he probably doesn't actually realize that many of the "non-cunt" people he meets are stoned as fuck but still very much functional and normal. They're not even smelly hippies who are heavily into a drug culture scene.
I seem to recall reading that they have managed to overcome that obstacle in a number of different ways. Sometimes they edit the binary files and strip out the call, sometimes they emulate a server and feed it back the correct information (gleaned from packet sniffing, presumably), and sometimes they go whole hog and create their own servers that authenticate. I believe some of the Windows versions can be pirated and connected to a temporary authentication server that stays up and running for a while until someone (Microsoft, probably) manages to get it taken down. I'd imagine there's a way to do it locally though I'm not sure if such has actually been done yet.
However, I'm neither a gamer nor do I have to pirate software so I don't really know - I just pay attention to the comments here and on other sites. I imagine it wouldn't take too long to use Google and at least find a forum of willing helpers. It seems some folks do it just because they like to and they enjoy the challenge. I don't really have much in the way of paid software except for my VMware. I'm pretty fond of it so I buy the new versions as they come out. It's one of the things that keeps me from going to GhostBSD on the bare metal.
I know this might come as a shock to you but, yes. I go outside and I even "play" outside. This morning, I was out puttering and getting in the way of the lawn crew. I went for a jog on the beach and the missus and I walked all the way to the State Park and back yesterday. If I were back home in Maine, I might have been out on a snowmobile, ATV, plow truck, or even hopping on a sled and going down the mountain like a five year old.
I not only go outside and play but I'm officially 58 now and I *still* go outside and play. I used to play some video games but then I bought a game called Fallout Tactics and that was the last straw for me. I've not been a gamer since.:( Well, not a serious gamer. I have picked up Fallout and Fallout 2 and replayed them a few times since then. I've not played either of them to completion in a lot of years.
At any rate - I get brave enough to face the Sun once in a while. It's bright, it hurts my eyes, and there are people out there but it's not too bad once you get used to it.
Isn't there a way to run pretty much any Linux app on FreeBSD? An interpretation layer of sorts? I've bumped into it being mentioned a few times but never remember to look back into it which kind of sucks because I'd like to spend more time in GhostBSD.
I don't care what they call themselves. They're brown to me. I'm brown too, it's okay to be brown. (You'd probably call me red/black/white but I actually look more Asian than anything, maybe Hispanic except I'm not Hispanic at all. I'm not even Asian.)
So yes, we won the war. I'm glad you agree. We then went full retard but we still won the war. Why we went full retard is beyond me, nobody ever listens to me but, if they had, I'd have suggested we not do that. Why we kept going, after winning the war, is something I'll never truly comprehend. No, I understand that they tell me were the reasons, I'll just never understand how the hell people were convinced that was a good idea.
If nothing else, we killed far more brown people than they killed of our people - some of our people are also brown. You probably think of yourself as white. I think of you as being kind of pinkish. Some of our pink people died too but not near as many as their brown people. There were probably a few olive looking people in the mix - on either side. I don't think anyone kept track of how many of them died. I suspect it was more of theirs than it was of ours. We're pretty good at bombing brown people - we'd probably bomb fewer pink and olive people if they'd segregate but that's probably a poor reason for segregation. Then again, it might actually be perfectly valid reason - if you're olive or pink.
We even made some people extraordinarily wealthy and improved our ability to target brown people.
Oh, it gets worse. Wait until you see me argue with someone that we won the Vietnam War. We were not on the winning side - but we won our part of the war. I'm sure I'll be bored enough to post it some day - I probably already have.
It's funny that you say that. I ended up transferring to be a chaser/escort but my MOS 3531 and that was the only time I saw combat. (You might want to search to find out what that MOS is.)
Those people you mention that got those medals? Look at the rest of them instead of the pretty ones. You literally get one for keeping yourself squared away and not doing stupid shit - it's called the Good Conduct Medal. If they have those others that you mention, chances are pretty good that they have at least that one and a number of badges.
Maybe you should ask those family members for a little more history or look at more then the pretty medals and learn what they actually mean.
You'd be surprised at how much an award can raise morale. Also, you'd probably bitch if they spent more money. In fact, I'm pretty sure I've seen you bitching about the military's budget in the past.
(I too think we spend too much. We should just stop being the World Police or start charging other countries to do it for them.)
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Are you familiar with Plato's Allegory of the Cave?
It says no positions are open for the 2015 to 2016 year and doesn't have the following year listed. If you ever feel like getting the hell out of the rat race (and I'm sure you'd find gainful employment as well) then let me introduce you to this:
http://www.kentshill.org/page....
Somebody here, on this very site, may make some sizable donations and be willing to put in a good word. ;-) I might be biased but it is an excellent school, one of the oldest preparatory schools in the country, actually. There's even a special trust that enables a few students (three per year) to attend as financially disadvantaged people - those students even get a stipend because it would be harmful for them to attend the school with a bunch of wealthy students and not have some money of their own to spend. The trust covers all expenses, including living expenses so that the kids can stay on campus.
I don't know but I'd suspect that right about this time of year would be a good time for those who are interested to consider sending an application there way. There are other loans and scholarships available beyond just those three. The alumni do a moderately good job at helping out and someone usually finds a way to fill in the rest.
As near as I can tell, he's from Chicago and a native of Chicago area. He's not even an ESL person. I could very easily be mistaken because I've gleaned such by reading (interpreting?) his comments over the years. I'm half convinced it's intentional as he never seems to respond. If so, it's like the longest manually typed troll to hit Slashdot. There's something to be said for that - even APK has decided to abandon us (he won - we can't prove him wrong) and cow guy didn't even stick around for a full year. Not even apps man stuck it out for a year. Not ol' Joe, though. He's been steadily typing gibberish for years now.
That explains it a bit better, thanks. That was not common knowledge when I read the book. If it was, I don't recall it being discussed in class. This was still in the late 1960s or early 1970s I should think. Yeah, I graduated in 1974 and I think it was in high school that we read it. Probably my sophomore year, I guess - I'm not really sure. That was quite a few years ago. Hmm... Yeah, I was 17 when I graduated. Wow, that was a long time ago. Ah well... :/ Thanks.
Yeah, as mentioned - I don't imagine it will amount to much per individual but, in aggregate, it may mean something. Then, with standing, we can get precedent. If we can get precedent then we can work on things like class actions. It still doesn't mean a whole hell of a lot for the individual but it *might* mean more appropriate levels of accountability for those who failed to keep the data secure.
It is not, by any means, ideal. However, it's a possibility. The damages may be small and that's okay as they add up if enough people are harmed. We just need to get them to accept that the damages might be minimal (but so aren't things like emotional harm) but that they truly exist. Then we just need to get it in front of a jury and have a pretty girl cry about how it ruined her life. A few days of testimony like that and we might get a precedent. Might... :(
They're already out there. They've already been shown to be unreliable. They've already demonstrated that they're not a desired product by the lack of sales.
Can you name one single "smart gun" model? No? That pretty much proves the point. If you refresh the thread, you'll find some links - including some test results that show it is unreliable (so far). You could have also used your favorite search engine.
I have no qualms with "smart guns" being made available to the public or to the military. None at all. In fact, I wish them luck in making a viable product and hope that it enables more people to be comfortable with firearm ownership. The more choices the better off we'll be. Competition is good for business and for the consumer.
If you haven't heard it in the discussion then that's because you haven't been listening - or are only listening to the people in power and they never think things through very well.
What it boils down to is that there are inherent risks that go along with both liberties and freedom. Freedom can always be used to take away someone else's rights. You can be less free and have fewer liberties if you're scared to accept the risks but I'd rather we not base our legislation entirely on cowardice.
Err... If you're not familiar with the terms: You are free to kill me. You are not at liberty to do so. If I try to take away your freedom, you have the right to kill me.
Freedom is risky. Bad things happen to good people. There is no way to prevent that so long as there are free people. The best way to reduce the levels of harm seem to be ways that result in a happy, healthy, productive, environment where people are treated like equals and have the ability to make their own choices.
Well, to be fair, I *am* a "trained marine" [sic] so I dare say that I stand a reasonable chance. Or, more accurately, I stand a reasonable chance because it's highly unlikely that a Marine (all Marines are riflemen - even the Lady Marines, cooks, clerks, laundry, and accountants) is going to obey an unlawful order to shoot me and it's also unlikely that they'll support a government that issues such orders.
The FBI? Please... I was stationed in Quantico and visited a popular civilian range quite frequently. They shoot about as well as your regular police officer - which is not that well.
For the record, I don't have any issue at all with the idea of "smart guns" and I think you should be able to make the choice to buy one if you want. I think you'll have better luck with smarter firearm owners but nobody ever listens to me. It's okay, I'm used to it.
That's fine. You should be allowed to make that choice. Who's arguing that you shouldn't be allowed to make that choice?
I'd expect quite a few on the left to "come out" against it - should it ever reach the point of being a requirement, enacted by law. I'm pretty friggen' far to the left of most any elected official (except maybe Bernie but I'm still to the left of him in some areas) and you can be damned sure that I'm against mandating these - ever.
I am not against them being researched nor am I against allowing people to choose such things. It's also important to note that I'm on the left for far different reasons than most elected officials, as well. However, I've typed that out enough times. Suffice to say, I'm an actual sane Libertarian and not the propagandized caricature. I'll elaborate if I must but Wikipedia has a fine article on the subject.
I'd like a wearable that allows me to pull up information about anything in visual range and extend out from there. I realized this when I was on the Skyway in Buffalo, NY. I wanted to know when the Skyway was built, what the max throughput was, what the averages where, elevation, duration of construction, how it was constructed, if there were accidents, and then I wanted to be able to look at the buildings and get even more information like that - including floor plans and whatnot.
I also realized it would be a horrible distraction while driving. It might work, for snippets or when parked, as a part of the HUD. I was driving up to Niagara Falls - it would be a combination tour guide and documentary, all in my own vision and ears. I'd find that quite handy.
They are children. We've always sent the kids off to war. You quite literally get a Good Conduct Medal for just keeping your shit squared away and not pissing anyone off. You get awards for being able to fire your weapon accurately - I have two. No, they don't all mean a fuck of a lot but they're much the same as insignia to those who know how to read them. You're, for your own reasons, placing far more stock in them than is needed. I've never counted but I suspect that there's a whole bunch that haven't a damned thing to do with heroics at all.
At any rate, they are children. We're still sending our kids off to wars that we, the adults, cause. It's not the old that are out there on the front lines - until things get really bad. It's the young, the people who may even still be growing in height and kids who haven't even finished their brain development. It's far easier to condition a still developing brain than it is to work on one that's older. If you don't like that then go take a kid's place for them if you're still young enough to get in. Otherwise, you missed the chance to do what you can to help work on the problems you see.
Wait, what? You don't actually believe you're entitled to lawfully purchase anything you want - do you? They're not exactly required to make everything available to you. I know that might sound odd but you're not actually entitled to view those movies. Sheesh...
Also, why are you wearing a dress and gloves while raking your lawn? It does look comfy but the gloves really stand out.
At any rate, we all know copyright's absurdly long but one doesn't necessarily have a right to access anything they want - no matter how easy it would be or how silly it is to not make it available. You're perfectly free to not provide lawful products to Zanzibar if you want. It's silly not to but it is your right. It might be annoying, frustrating, and straight up stupid - but we're not entitled to everything we want.
I just accept that I'm a horrible person because I have both time and means to get most anything I want but I still pirate music and documentaries. I'm okay with that. On the scale of horrors that I could commit, well, that's pretty trivial. I pay for Netflix and Hulu and never actually use 'em, so there's that. Actually, over NYE weekend, I gave my Netflix name and password to someone else - a someone that actually visits this site and comments fairly frequently. I'm not only a horrible person but I enable others to be as bad as I am. (I'm pretty sure that Netflix is only supposed to be shared with members of the household. I have never actually read Hulu's policy.)
At any rate, being able to lawfully buy Song of the South and Pinocchio and Emperor of the Night and the others is immaterial to the argument. If it's unavailable to lawfully purchase that doesn't make pirating it any more justified - it just means you're now not only taking away the rights of the rights holder in two ways instead of one.
I usually avoid posting in these types of threads because, really, I'm not a gamer and I do pirate music and documentaries - I just admit that I'm a horrible person. At any rate, over the years of having these debates, I've kind of formalized my standard debate response. It works reasonably well and I've had people try to shoot holes in it before (which is something I truly enjoy and there's no ego involved so I'm okay with being wrong and modifying my argument) and this one has held up fairly well for a while now:
http://games.slashdot.org/comm...
That covers most of it - though I throw in some mean and nasty just to be a prick because they've got Manning in Snowden in their signature (I'm quite a fan of Snowden) while they're arguing that it is okay to abuse other people and strip them of their rights. The gist of it is, depriving someone of the fruits of their labor is what we called slavery. The pirate is using something without having paid for the right to do so, thus depriving them of their rights and their liberty to be compensated for their work by those who make use of it - in the manner that they insist on (so long as such is lawful, of course).
It's copyright - the word "right" is in the name for a reason. You have a right to control access to the outcome of your labor. When you don't have that right, you are a slave. If they want to give it away they can. If they want to license it then they can do that. If they want to sell it with all rights included - including distribution then that's okay too. The pirate does not have that right.
I think a legitimate argument could be made that those few that crack the DRM for their legally purchased games, so long as they go no further than that, shouldn't fall into that category as a fair use exemption to copyright. I also think copyright should not last nearly as long as it does. I also don't think that one has a right to everything they want - so if it's not available then it sucks to be them. They probably can't afford lots of things, that doesn't mean they're entitled to have those things.
What an interesting signature you have - and all the more amusing when you so casually talk about taking away the rights of others.
As I've mentioned, I'm a huge fan of Snowden and I don't want to project but I suspect he'd not be impressed with someone who so casually takes away someone else's enumerated rights for their own gain. Maybe those who want their 4th Amendment Rights should go live in their own city too or is it just the rights you want? You want the right to privacy and to be secure in your papers (presumably - seeing as you too believe Snowden is a hero) but also want to give up all your rights (which is what anarchy is, by the way).
You're just a whole fruity bowl of logical inconsistencies, entitlement, and hypocrisy. I don't think I've ever seen quite that same combination or at that great a scale before. I'm truly flabbergasted as to how you manage to rationalize all those inconsistencies. I can only presume you've not actually given any thought to it.
Do you know what it means when a person doesn't have a right to the fruits of their labor? Slavery... We outlawed that but, well, maybe that's your one logical consistency in that you don't believe that people should have rights. I'm not sure how you managed to fit Snowden into your signature. I'm kind of wondering if you have any original thoughts of your own or if you just parrot what looks popular without bothering to see how those ideas all mesh together as one.
Yes, when you infringe on copyright you're taking someone's rights away. It's right there in the name. I dare say that taking away someone's liberty is a crime worse than theft. I'm pretty sure you'll still figure out a way to rationalize it but you may want to reach a point in life where you're at least honest with yourself. I, for instance, pirate documentaries and music because I'm a horrible person and an asshole. I take away their rights for my own ease of access - it's not even about the money, I've got money. I pay for both Netflix and Hulu but never use 'em. I just pirate that shit or find someone who has and I stream it. Why? I'm a self-centered, lazy, prick.
At least man up and admit it to yourself. In the mean time, you do Snowden a disservice by associating his name with you. That's really cool of you.
Why? What does he add to the discussion?
Judging by the number of comments, quite a bit.
To be fair, he probably doesn't actually realize that many of the "non-cunt" people he meets are stoned as fuck but still very much functional and normal. They're not even smelly hippies who are heavily into a drug culture scene.
I seem to recall reading that they have managed to overcome that obstacle in a number of different ways. Sometimes they edit the binary files and strip out the call, sometimes they emulate a server and feed it back the correct information (gleaned from packet sniffing, presumably), and sometimes they go whole hog and create their own servers that authenticate. I believe some of the Windows versions can be pirated and connected to a temporary authentication server that stays up and running for a while until someone (Microsoft, probably) manages to get it taken down. I'd imagine there's a way to do it locally though I'm not sure if such has actually been done yet.
However, I'm neither a gamer nor do I have to pirate software so I don't really know - I just pay attention to the comments here and on other sites. I imagine it wouldn't take too long to use Google and at least find a forum of willing helpers. It seems some folks do it just because they like to and they enjoy the challenge. I don't really have much in the way of paid software except for my VMware. I'm pretty fond of it so I buy the new versions as they come out. It's one of the things that keeps me from going to GhostBSD on the bare metal.
I know this might come as a shock to you but, yes. I go outside and I even "play" outside. This morning, I was out puttering and getting in the way of the lawn crew. I went for a jog on the beach and the missus and I walked all the way to the State Park and back yesterday. If I were back home in Maine, I might have been out on a snowmobile, ATV, plow truck, or even hopping on a sled and going down the mountain like a five year old.
I not only go outside and play but I'm officially 58 now and I *still* go outside and play. I used to play some video games but then I bought a game called Fallout Tactics and that was the last straw for me. I've not been a gamer since. :( Well, not a serious gamer. I have picked up Fallout and Fallout 2 and replayed them a few times since then. I've not played either of them to completion in a lot of years.
At any rate - I get brave enough to face the Sun once in a while. It's bright, it hurts my eyes, and there are people out there but it's not too bad once you get used to it.
Isn't there a way to run pretty much any Linux app on FreeBSD? An interpretation layer of sorts? I've bumped into it being mentioned a few times but never remember to look back into it which kind of sucks because I'd like to spend more time in GhostBSD.
From what I've read - it's not even a good solution for anything.
I don't care what they call themselves. They're brown to me. I'm brown too, it's okay to be brown. (You'd probably call me red/black/white but I actually look more Asian than anything, maybe Hispanic except I'm not Hispanic at all. I'm not even Asian.)
So yes, we won the war. I'm glad you agree. We then went full retard but we still won the war. Why we went full retard is beyond me, nobody ever listens to me but, if they had, I'd have suggested we not do that. Why we kept going, after winning the war, is something I'll never truly comprehend. No, I understand that they tell me were the reasons, I'll just never understand how the hell people were convinced that was a good idea.
If nothing else, we killed far more brown people than they killed of our people - some of our people are also brown. You probably think of yourself as white. I think of you as being kind of pinkish. Some of our pink people died too but not near as many as their brown people. There were probably a few olive looking people in the mix - on either side. I don't think anyone kept track of how many of them died. I suspect it was more of theirs than it was of ours. We're pretty good at bombing brown people - we'd probably bomb fewer pink and olive people if they'd segregate but that's probably a poor reason for segregation. Then again, it might actually be perfectly valid reason - if you're olive or pink.
We even made some people extraordinarily wealthy and improved our ability to target brown people.
Oh, it gets worse. Wait until you see me argue with someone that we won the Vietnam War. We were not on the winning side - but we won our part of the war. I'm sure I'll be bored enough to post it some day - I probably already have.
It's funny that you say that. I ended up transferring to be a chaser/escort but my MOS 3531 and that was the only time I saw combat. (You might want to search to find out what that MOS is.)
Those people you mention that got those medals? Look at the rest of them instead of the pretty ones. You literally get one for keeping yourself squared away and not doing stupid shit - it's called the Good Conduct Medal. If they have those others that you mention, chances are pretty good that they have at least that one and a number of badges.
Maybe you should ask those family members for a little more history or look at more then the pretty medals and learn what they actually mean.
You'd be surprised at how much an award can raise morale. Also, you'd probably bitch if they spent more money. In fact, I'm pretty sure I've seen you bitching about the military's budget in the past.
(I too think we spend too much. We should just stop being the World Police or start charging other countries to do it for them.)