It's fantastic. Apple is the only company treated with any compassion, objectivity, or even realism. Only in apple posts (and sometimes in MS posts) do people actually see what's feasible for a company to do, to empathise with their workings, and come to reasonable solutions to problems that don't involve consumers getting everything they want for nothing. Kudos to the moderate Apple fanboys out there, and your surprisingly level-headed assessment of Apple..
Well, after looking at Vista running on a demo computer, and hearing some very vivid and informative hearsay from Slashdotters, whom I trust have tried it themselves, I've come to the conclusion that you're wrong.
You're partially right: it doesn't matter whether it's you, a religious group, or a governmental representative. If you're in Canada, you're not allowed under normal circumstances (as a privacy matter) to record information on faces and license plates. Society has accepted a long, long time ago that some information is better kept under the hat. Call it "cencorship" or anything else you want, it's a damn good law.
I also know that lead to ridiculous over use that we currently see in video cards 9800XX-Max-Super-X.
I bought an ALDI computer that contained an 9***XXL (I forget the specific). Funnily enough, the card wasn't especially big, let alone extra, extra large.
... I had never heard of Michael Meeks, but as soon as I read "ZDNet has up a great interview with Michael Meeks" in the summary, I knew exactly which format he supports. Slashdot can be so transparent sometimes.
I say we get rid of representative democracy entirely and replace the legislative branch with regular people. People who aren't paid. Just volunteering because they want to help their country.
There's no need! If this is what the people want, how about just making a party of volunteers? You perhaps have a sock-puppet president who'd constantly "reshuffle" the bench with new volunteers. There'd be no legislation changes necessary, and the people could be given the chance to embrace or extinguish this proposed change. Somehow, though, I don't think that that's what the people want, and I, for one, agree with them.
This would be much better and is closer to what our founding fathers really wanted.
The problem with your suggestion is that it gives people with "agendas" waaaaaay too much power. Think about it. The extremist nuts get to volunteer with little public oversight, and get completely disproportionate power, despite what the people want. That's not democracy of any kind. If your founding fathers wanted that, I suggest we ignore them.
This voting bullshit for representatives is just a game. In the U.S., we don't even have much difference between parties.
You know why? Because in the U.S., there isn't much difference between prudent politics and, er, prudent politics. The parties happen to be similar in areas where it's clear what the people want. Democracy is working fine.
No. You'd have to register to vote, with the option of voting by mobile phone. You'd give them the details of one of your SIMs (or if the system is permissive, all 8!), and you'd use that to vote. If the SIM card gets stolen, you'd just unregister it.
Y'know, I can't think of a single time the FBI has intervened on MPAA/RIAA business, let alone enough times to consider it any sort of priority.
Also, I'd like to point out that your sig is false. From the/. FAQ:
Flamebait -- Flamebait refers to comments whose sole purpose is to insult and enrage. If someone is not-so-subtly picking a fight (racial insults are a dead giveaway), it's Flamebait. Troll -- A Troll is similar to Flamebait, but slightly more refined. This is a prank comment intended to provoke indignant (or just confused) responses. A Troll might mix up vital facts or otherwise distort reality, to make other readers react with helpful "corrections." Trolling is the online equivalent of intentionally dialing wrong numbers just to waste other people's time.
Please note there is nothing about being right or wrong. Right and wrong are crappy measurements of opinions anyway. You just have to be provocative, and you've earned the mod, whether the essential facts are correct or not.
In the case of this post, your comments on the FBI were provocative, implying they want to torture and imprison innocent people, or that the **AA are in cahoots with them. It's both factually false, and unsubtly put. Mod parent down.
So far the pirate bay has proven to be within the law in the place it is based and so is not related to crime at all.
Um actually, it does have to do with crime. It's criminal to commit copyright infringement (at least in the US). Where the guy you downloaded the torrent from is located is irrelevant. If you download a pirated copy of a copyrighted work, you're committing cybercrime. And the fact that you seem to think the hyperbolic and irrational hatred of the RIAA/MPAA is "not unreasonable" does not change that.
Oh well, I guess if the hatred of the RIAA/MPAA is the only problem, perhaps the government taking over the same responsibilities will quell the anger?
Someone tagged this story "good". That's wonderful, because I often have a lot of trouble finding stories that are "good", or related to "good". Now, some helpful slashdotter has just absolutely definitely NOT abused the tagging system, and made sure that people know that this is one of the many articles relating to "good". Bravo.
Pshaw. You can't say that without any evidence. Unless, of course, you think that a bunch of politicians voting for a bill is evidence for your claim. So what? They'll just push anything that the public wants. It doesn't follow by any measure that there's a conspiracy.
...so mod me down if you like mods, but metamods need to pay attention, too, because you aren't supposed to mod based on your political opinion.
It's true mods, he hasn't done anything wrong. However, conversely, metamods need to pay attention to the positive mods as well, which he clearly doesn't deserve. Insightful? It takes no insight to wildly assume the worst about the government, as proven time and again on blogs and online forums.
Now if only this would catch on... we might actually see laws that are representative of what the people want
At least, those who have and know how to use an internet connection, so you get a bias there. From what I've seen, there's far too much libertarianism to get a balanced and democratic decisions (no offense intended to libertarians out there).
And the process seems nevertheless a little too democratic, if you know what I mean. Would the people be able to know the ins and outs of creating a law? Would they be able to create/edit a law without creating loopholes?
Finally, the wiki model may not be the best model. Only those who can be bothered to change the law for themselves get a say, and people on the fringes of politics tend to be the most dedicated. Consequently, extremist laws will be in danger of being passed. Also, anyone who edits the wiki instantly changes the law to exactly what they want, so the leverage is far too great for just one person. They could fix that by adding in an administration a la Wikipedia, but that has its own problems. I don't know if we want messy IP blocking in a democratic process.
you've also left out an important trend here - there's evidence to support our accusations
The interpretation of the evidence is relative. It may say "greedy fuckers" to you, but it might say "efficient business" or "moral crusade" to someone else.
The RIAA...certainly haven't done anything to actually stop piracy - just look at the numbers.
That's another example: you disagree with their tactics, so therefore they're useless. They don't have to stop piracy, just to slow it as much as possible.
Politics/government - just look at the laws, and their failure to obey them.
Well, it's only a small number of politicians who break the law. It's another example, where a small number of highly publicised politicians do bad things, therefore politics is bad, therefore they're all bad.
Sorry to nitpick the whole thing. I just wanted to show you how deep it actually runs.
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It's fantastic. Apple is the only company treated with any compassion, objectivity, or even realism. Only in apple posts (and sometimes in MS posts) do people actually see what's feasible for a company to do, to empathise with their workings, and come to reasonable solutions to problems that don't involve consumers getting everything they want for nothing. Kudos to the moderate Apple fanboys out there, and your surprisingly level-headed assessment of Apple..
Well, after looking at Vista running on a demo computer, and hearing some very vivid and informative hearsay from Slashdotters, whom I trust have tried it themselves, I've come to the conclusion that you're wrong.
... ATTACK!!!
You're partially right: it doesn't matter whether it's you, a religious group, or a governmental representative. If you're in Canada, you're not allowed under normal circumstances (as a privacy matter) to record information on faces and license plates. Society has accepted a long, long time ago that some information is better kept under the hat. Call it "cencorship" or anything else you want, it's a damn good law.
I just *love* comical hyperbole!
Aww crap. I don't think this vPro stuff is for me. Do they have vAmateur Technology for us more casual computer users?
... that there is only one story on Slashdot since tagging was introduced that relates to becauseamericansaredumb? Fascinating stuff.
... I had never heard of Michael Meeks, but as soon as I read "ZDNet has up a great interview with Michael Meeks" in the summary, I knew exactly which format he supports. Slashdot can be so transparent sometimes.
... cheap hardware means cheap Vista-capable computers. Don't forget the swing goes both ways.
Commie.
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Rubbish. Everything requires activation. How else will you get the Genuine Advantage? Even Linux requires activation.
No. You'd have to register to vote, with the option of voting by mobile phone. You'd give them the details of one of your SIMs (or if the system is permissive, all 8!), and you'd use that to vote. If the SIM card gets stolen, you'd just unregister it.
Also, I'd like to point out that your sig is false. From the
In the case of this post, your comments on the FBI were provocative, implying they want to torture and imprison innocent people, or that the **AA are in cahoots with them. It's both factually false, and unsubtly put. Mod parent down.
Oh well, I guess if the hatred of the RIAA/MPAA is the only problem, perhaps the government taking over the same responsibilities will quell the anger?
Someone tagged this story "good". That's wonderful, because I often have a lot of trouble finding stories that are "good", or related to "good". Now, some helpful slashdotter has just absolutely definitely NOT abused the tagging system, and made sure that people know that this is one of the many articles relating to "good". Bravo.
If you cared to read them, you'd find out why.
I am? My god. Their corruption knows no bounds!
Let's just see how many combinations of the same ol' crap you can make before:
a) You run out of ideas, and the lameness filters get you
b) The thread closes
And the process seems nevertheless a little too democratic, if you know what I mean. Would the people be able to know the ins and outs of creating a law? Would they be able to create/edit a law without creating loopholes?
Finally, the wiki model may not be the best model. Only those who can be bothered to change the law for themselves get a say, and people on the fringes of politics tend to be the most dedicated. Consequently, extremist laws will be in danger of being passed. Also, anyone who edits the wiki instantly changes the law to exactly what they want, so the leverage is far too great for just one person. They could fix that by adding in an administration a la Wikipedia, but that has its own problems. I don't know if we want messy IP blocking in a democratic process.
Sorry to nitpick the whole thing. I just wanted to show you how deep it actually runs.