1) Demands access to nearby water treatment procedures and the core architecture to the local thermonuclear reactor
2) Yet cries foul when asked to produce even the vaguest form of identifications such as a SS#, driver's license, non-web based email address?
It's not paradoxical at all (assuming that's the word you meant. A discrepancy is a divergence of facts). We have the right to demand accountability from our government. Businesses have no right to demand accountability from individuals.
But we have opt-in marketing now. At least, we do according to the roughly 5-10 spamming fuckheads per day who take pains to inform me: "THIS IS NOT SPAM! You have received this valuable information because you signed up for it!"
The day I sign up for marketers telling me what's on "sale" is the day Satan builds a snowman.
The plot looks much more well-defined in this one than it was in Episode I. Of course, that's hard to call in a 2-minute trailer, but that's how it looks. Guess I'll have to pirate QuickTime Pro just to see the large version of a movie ad....
By the way, the Crossover plugin rocks. My only wish is that it supported Opera as well, but it worked flawlessly in Mozilla.
We had insurance, but still had to fight with them for the $2000 in damage. They ended up giving us shipping credits.
Fabulous. "We broke all your shit, but we'll make it right by breaking some more in the future, for free!"
I have never had a good experience with UPS. From perpetually late "guaranteed" 2-day deliveries to smashed boxes (fortunately no damage to contents) to drivers leaving stuff with neighbors without my authorization. I try to stick with USPS when I can.
Funny thing, UPS did exactly that to me. Fortunately I got the stuff back from the neighbor (who came up with an elaborate story of how my books ended up on his bookshelf). Airborne Express, on the other hand, just left thousands of dollars of proprietary training materials from work sitting outside my front door in the apartment complex, several times, after I complained vocally to the supervisor. Bottom line is, if you want something done right, you have to do it yourself.
1990: Tim Berners Lee creates World Wide Web
1993: NCSA releases Mosaic browser
1994: Netscape founded, W3 consortium meets
1995: MS introduces their own DOM with IE
1996: Marketers discover web, shit hits fan
Business models based on "intellectual property" don't work. That's why all the dot coms are going belly up--businesses that actually sell tangible items (Thinkgeek, Best Buy, etc.) generally do well because they sell things, not because they have a "web presence."
Talking to you, business majors: the internet is not here for you to make money. Keep your business models where they belong, and leave the web to what it was designed for: the open exchange of information. In short, get out. And take your fucking pop-up ads with you.
I knew the Bushies would pull some stunt today to take attention away from the revelation that Gore won the election, but this is just sick! Shame on you Ari Fleischer! You people are despicable!
I was a Gore backer, but I also know how to read. The AP's official testimony shows that Gore was about 2,000 votes behind in Florida.
Well, this morning the BBC was incorrectly reporting that it was an inbound Boeing 767. I wouldn't really trust them any more than any other news agency.:P
For years I bought blank cassette tapes to record my own music onto from 4-track. Every tape I purchased had a built-in tax that went straight to the RIAA and its mafia-like associates, to help cover "piracy." I paid this tax even though I was using the tapes for my own copyrighted work; essentially, the RIAA got my money and I got nothing in return.
Now, I copy MP3s. I get something, and the RIAA gets nothing. This latest news is even better--now the artists will actually get something, while the RIAA continues to get nothing. I think it's a more than fair balance. The RIAA has been screwing honest customers for years. Is it any wonder some of those previously honest customers have decided to get even?
Incidentally, "near-perfect," even if it actually were (MP3s are rotten for the most part) has nothing to do with it; the fair use laws don't address it at all, and the RIAA can't rewrite laws to their liking. That's for the courts to decide. Your point about sharing with the whole world was well-taken, though.
I thought ext3fs was a kernel patch plus one or two utils, yet when I go to download it I see a shitload of RPMs I'm supposed to install. With any other application, I wouldn't have a problem, but do I really want to fuck with my filesystem knowing that I could have missed a file in all the downloading? Probably not.:)
the symlinks tended to have random garbage in them, rather than a pointer to the file in question. It looked like the symlinks contained bits of other files.
Sounds like some interesting security implications. Time to start testing a reiserfs box to find out where those links are pointing....
Regards your view of pseudo-science rubbish: You must understand that the movements of the planets as posited by Velikovsky is an explanation of the events that he teased out of legends. He successfully predicted that Venus was hot, that Jupiter has a large magnetic field, and quite a number of other things. Whether it is right or wrong, it is still a valid, testable hypothesis, capable of making predictions, and therefore Science.
I don't know much about the guy, but from what I'm reading, he had many, many ideas that were flat-out wrong, even by the science of his day. Writing a bunch of ideas on notecards, putting them on the wall, and firing a shotgun at them isn't science, even if you can point to some of the holes and say, "see? That one was a valid prediction!"
Oh, we used to do just that (playing in abandoned houses). In fact, here's my "ghost story" (really more of a "holy fuck!" story):
When I was about 12, me and three friends climbed in the windows of a house that had obviously been long abandoned and were looking it over when we split up. This was a very small, one-level house, but every room was packed with rotting books, trash, and heaps of old newspapers. I saw some old photos and figured that the previous owner was a minister. As I was passing a window on my way to the bedroom, I heard an old man's voice outside: "HEY, WHAT DO YOU KIDS THINK YOU'RE DOING?" Remember that scene at the beginning of The Matrix, where Trinity leaps off the building and flies through a window without touching its sides? That was me, flying out the window.
Turns out it was one of my friends outside, having decided to scare the shit out of the rest of us.
"I'm dressed like a serial killer. They look just like everyone else." -- Wednesday, _The Addams Family_ movie (paraphrased, no need to rush in with a 5-page discourse on how I misquoted it).
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2) Yet cries foul when asked to produce even the vaguest form of identifications such as a SS#, driver's license, non-web based email address?
It's not paradoxical at all (assuming that's the word you meant. A discrepancy is a divergence of facts). We have the right to demand accountability from our government. Businesses have no right to demand accountability from individuals.
Happy to help.
-Legion
The day I sign up for marketers telling me what's on "sale" is the day Satan builds a snowman.
-Legion
By the way, the Crossover plugin rocks. My only wish is that it supported Opera as well, but it worked flawlessly in Mozilla.
-Legion
If the studios think they can make a buck by exploiting dead actors, they will.
-Legion
2001-02-05 10:55:26 Hawaiian ISP: "No AOLers!" (articles,news)(rejected)
2001-10-31 16:00:26 Audiogalaxy blocking my own copyrighted songs (yro,internet)(rejected)
2001-11-14 02:59:15 Op-Ed piece advocates summary executions by police (articles,news)(rejected)
Now I see I should have submitted them like this:
Apple: "No AOLers!"
Microsoft blocking my colon
RMS advocates summary execution for people who don't refer to it as "Gnu Linux"
And now I'll be modded down as Offtopic. You just can't win. :P
But seriously, Slashdot does seem a bit on the tabloid side lately.
-Legion
Fabulous. "We broke all your shit, but we'll make it right by breaking some more in the future, for free!"
I have never had a good experience with UPS. From perpetually late "guaranteed" 2-day deliveries to smashed boxes (fortunately no damage to contents) to drivers leaving stuff with neighbors without my authorization. I try to stick with USPS when I can.
-Legion
-Legion
1993: NCSA releases Mosaic browser
1994: Netscape founded, W3 consortium meets
1995: MS introduces their own DOM with IE
1996: Marketers discover web, shit hits fan
Business models based on "intellectual property" don't work. That's why all the dot coms are going belly up--businesses that actually sell tangible items (Thinkgeek, Best Buy, etc.) generally do well because they sell things, not because they have a "web presence."
Talking to you, business majors: the internet is not here for you to make money. Keep your business models where they belong, and leave the web to what it was designed for: the open exchange of information. In short, get out. And take your fucking pop-up ads with you.
-Legion
Oh, like *that* will stop MS....
-Legion
I was a Gore backer, but I also know how to read. The AP's official testimony shows that Gore was about 2,000 votes behind in Florida.
-Legion
-Legion
-Legion
-Legion
Now, I copy MP3s. I get something, and the RIAA gets nothing. This latest news is even better--now the artists will actually get something, while the RIAA continues to get nothing. I think it's a more than fair balance. The RIAA has been screwing honest customers for years. Is it any wonder some of those previously honest customers have decided to get even?
Incidentally, "near-perfect," even if it actually were (MP3s are rotten for the most part) has nothing to do with it; the fair use laws don't address it at all, and the RIAA can't rewrite laws to their liking. That's for the courts to decide. Your point about sharing with the whole world was well-taken, though.
-Legion
-Legion
-Legion
Sounds like some interesting security implications. Time to start testing a reiserfs box to find out where those links are pointing....
-Legion
It was funny when I thought of it, I swear!
-Legion
"make sure u download the correct patch."
-Legion
They don't like Slashdot. :)
-Legion
-Legion
I don't know much about the guy, but from what I'm reading, he had many, many ideas that were flat-out wrong, even by the science of his day. Writing a bunch of ideas on notecards, putting them on the wall, and firing a shotgun at them isn't science, even if you can point to some of the holes and say, "see? That one was a valid prediction!"
When I was about 12, me and three friends climbed in the windows of a house that had obviously been long abandoned and were looking it over when we split up. This was a very small, one-level house, but every room was packed with rotting books, trash, and heaps of old newspapers. I saw some old photos and figured that the previous owner was a minister. As I was passing a window on my way to the bedroom, I heard an old man's voice outside: "HEY, WHAT DO YOU KIDS THINK YOU'RE DOING?" Remember that scene at the beginning of The Matrix, where Trinity leaps off the building and flies through a window without touching its sides? That was me, flying out the window.
Turns out it was one of my friends outside, having decided to scare the shit out of the rest of us.
-Legion
-Legion
Funny, it didn't LOOK like a slow news day....
-Legion