"Dozens of Republican congressmen are now speaking critically of our president and his cabinet publicly."
You may see that as a step in the right direction, but after 6 years of republicans fellating the president, the significance of their change of heart one year before another election cycle has not been lost on me.
Politicians are liars. Regardless of what these fucks say now, I vote based on past actions.
Really? I was under the impression that the only "nay" vote was from Russ Feingold. Unless you mean the second time it came up, in which case: what was Paul's vote the first time?
Exactly! Just like the socialist bailout of the airline industries, which...shit, that was on a republican watch, with a republican in the White House and in control of both houses of congress. Nevermind.
"Don't be fooled. The right to have information about yourself be private is purely statutory (without such a statute, there is no such right). This is not a constitutional right."
You should probably try reading it sometime.
As the constitution unambiguously says, rights are not granted by governments but exist inherently, and the ninth amendment quite specifically says that the Bill of Rights should not be read as an exhaustive list of such rights.
"All Dreamcast games are easy to copy if they don't exceed the capacity of a CD."
Echelon (AKA gods) managed to take a GD game (Skies of Arcadia), compress it to fit onto two CDs instead of two GD disks, and wrote a small DC program that uncompressed and streamed the large movie files on the fly while you played, with pretty good results. It was about as impressive as the DC itself.
An interesting thought experiment that will never be reality. DRM is about control, and no company will ever allow "legitimate" usage, since that's what they're trying to kill via DRM.
I don't know if I'd support such a system. I do know that I support companies that decline to use things like DRM and copy protection (for instance, Bethesda's awesome TES4: Oblivion) if they're at the right price point (~$20-30 for games, ~$10 for CDs from bands like Harvey Danger and pretty much anyone distributing through CDBaby). Otherwise, the shit gets downloaded.
I'm not sure how you overlooked the other bloggers doing their fine impression of remoras by linking their own blogs in the comments, as if they had something important to say. Welcome to blogging!
"Update 7: I could update this for as long as people make false accusations. Over at Barb Bowman's blog, people are accusing her of not disclosing the fact she got it from Microsoft, when in fact she did. I quote, 'The nice folks at AMD recently provided an Acer Ferrari 5000'. These review PCs were given out by Microsoft and AMD, which in return could be credited to either of them."
Is this guy a fucking idiot? People are accusing her of not disclosing she got it from MS...and he "disproves" them by showing a quote from her in which she doesn't mention MS.
Quick lesson in logic for you, Zheng: if you had said "Over at Barb Bowman's blog, people are accusing her of not disclosing the fact she got it from Microsoft or AMD" then your counterexample would be sufficient to disprove the claim.
"but damn 5 bucks if I ordered through this thing"
No. A penny per page is the *production* cost--what it costs the machine's owner in raw materials and electricity to print. Also it appears to be currently limited to the sort of books you can get on Project Gutenberg (i.e., public domain).
Although I agree that the fact this aide was republican is irrelevant, I must also point out that you're a moron. Foley didn't "lose his job," he resigned before Hastert saw the news. Clinton wasn't impeached for his legal consensual act with another adult, he was impeached for lying under oath (and apparently the republican-controlled congress didn't think lying under oath about a consensual affair between two adults was grounds for removal from office). Studds was investigated and censured, something this republican-controlled congress couldn't bring themselves to do even though it was widely known that Foley had issues with young pages. Congress couldn't even be bothered to look into it until after his resignation. You may want to familiarize yourself with reality sometime.
"The appearance of a stock in a pump'n'dump spam should be enough to freeze trading in the stock and look at recent buyers. Hmm, looks like that's been done at least once:"
That's not a bad idea. When I have spare time I look up the CEOs of the companies whose stocks are being spammed and tell postfix to redirect the shit straight to their inboxes, but this is less than ideal. Let the SEC deal with it.
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"Dozens of Republican congressmen are now speaking critically of our president and his cabinet publicly."
You may see that as a step in the right direction, but after 6 years of republicans fellating the president, the significance of their change of heart one year before another election cycle has not been lost on me.
Politicians are liars. Regardless of what these fucks say now, I vote based on past actions.
"[Ron Paul] voted against the Patriot act"
Really? I was under the impression that the only "nay" vote was from Russ Feingold. Unless you mean the second time it came up, in which case: what was Paul's vote the first time?
Exactly! Just like the socialist bailout of the airline industries, which...shit, that was on a republican watch, with a republican in the White House and in control of both houses of congress. Nevermind.
"Don't be fooled. The right to have information about yourself be private is purely statutory (without such a statute, there is no such right). This is not a constitutional right."
You should probably try reading it sometime.
As the constitution unambiguously says, rights are not granted by governments but exist inherently, and the ninth amendment quite specifically says that the Bill of Rights should not be read as an exhaustive list of such rights.
"Would you consider a candidate's stand on privacy important enough to sway your vote?"
Probably not in most cases, but certainly not where Mrs. "which way is the wind blowing today?" Clinton is concerned.
Me too!
"If you're getting your news only from $NEWS_CONGLOMERATE, you'll get an EXTREMELY BIASED view of american news."
I fixed that for you.
Smooth.
"All Dreamcast games are easy to copy if they don't exceed the capacity of a CD."
Echelon (AKA gods) managed to take a GD game (Skies of Arcadia), compress it to fit onto two CDs instead of two GD disks, and wrote a small DC program that uncompressed and streamed the large movie files on the fly while you played, with pretty good results. It was about as impressive as the DC itself.
It's a good thing the government is protecting us from how we spend our money.
Fuck email designers. Use text like everyone else, you latte-slurping assholes.
"Suddenly we no longer existed in the eyes of Google."
Then you should have gotten your shit together and been more proactive on the spam front.
An interesting thought experiment that will never be reality. DRM is about control, and no company will ever allow "legitimate" usage, since that's what they're trying to kill via DRM.
I don't know if I'd support such a system. I do know that I support companies that decline to use things like DRM and copy protection (for instance, Bethesda's awesome TES4: Oblivion) if they're at the right price point (~$20-30 for games, ~$10 for CDs from bands like Harvey Danger and pretty much anyone distributing through CDBaby). Otherwise, the shit gets downloaded.
"Is there a cure for this?"
Yes: don't visit Yahoo sites.
"I know OS X.x won't boot in a Dell"
My OSX 10.4.3 Inspiron begs to differ, sir.
I see the author hasn't played Defcon.
I'm not sure how you overlooked the other bloggers doing their fine impression of remoras by linking their own blogs in the comments, as if they had something important to say. Welcome to blogging!
"They don't care that you personally search for 'hot naked redheads'."
What the...WHO TOLD YOU?
Fucking Microsoft marketers.
"Do you require a large, laminated Venn diagram to tell your ass from your elbow, or do you keep this information in a PDA or cell phone?"
"Update 7: I could update this for as long as people make false accusations. Over at Barb Bowman's blog, people are accusing her of not disclosing the fact she got it from Microsoft, when in fact she did. I quote, 'The nice folks at AMD recently provided an Acer Ferrari 5000'. These review PCs were given out by Microsoft and AMD, which in return could be credited to either of them."
Is this guy a fucking idiot? People are accusing her of not disclosing she got it from MS...and he "disproves" them by showing a quote from her in which she doesn't mention MS.
Quick lesson in logic for you, Zheng: if you had said "Over at Barb Bowman's blog, people are accusing her of not disclosing the fact she got it from Microsoft or AMD" then your counterexample would be sufficient to disprove the claim.
Indeed they are. Thanks. Jefferson, eh? What a shocker.
"but damn 5 bucks if I ordered through this thing"
No. A penny per page is the *production* cost--what it costs the machine's owner in raw materials and electricity to print. Also it appears to be currently limited to the sort of books you can get on Project Gutenberg (i.e., public domain).
"Remember the Dem that had the Nat'l Guard load up his private stuff during Katrina
No. Since you didn't provide a link, do you at least have a name, or were you just shilling?
Although I agree that the fact this aide was republican is irrelevant, I must also point out that you're a moron. Foley didn't "lose his job," he resigned before Hastert saw the news. Clinton wasn't impeached for his legal consensual act with another adult, he was impeached for lying under oath (and apparently the republican-controlled congress didn't think lying under oath about a consensual affair between two adults was grounds for removal from office). Studds was investigated and censured, something this republican-controlled congress couldn't bring themselves to do even though it was widely known that Foley had issues with young pages. Congress couldn't even be bothered to look into it until after his resignation. You may want to familiarize yourself with reality sometime.
"The appearance of a stock in a pump'n'dump spam should be enough to freeze trading in the stock and look at recent buyers. Hmm, looks like that's been done at least once:"
That's not a bad idea. When I have spare time I look up the CEOs of the companies whose stocks are being spammed and tell postfix to redirect the shit straight to their inboxes, but this is less than ideal. Let the SEC deal with it.