I pirate games because I don't want to spend money on them. I really don't care that some programmer or company is getting shafted out of my dollars. That's money I could spend on other pleasures. Why would I give them my money so that they can use it to compete with me for tangible resources like real estate, luxuries, and women?
I don't bloody care. Call me a thief, so what? What are you going to do about it?
Is it unfair, uncivilized, uncouth? Not my problem. I do what I want. In an age when I can download whatever games I want for free, actually paying for them is like putting my money in a shredder.
I'm not gonna try to tap dance around it and defend my actions because I really don't have to until I'm standing before a judge. This isn't a troll or sarcastic post. I really don't have any scruples about this crap.
Do not aim your rifle at anything you do not intend to kill.
All it would take is a misfire or accidentally putting it on the wrong setting and you've got brains splattered everywhere. I don't think these fascists thought this the whole way through. Then again, maybe they did:(
I'm getting so tired of comments like this. As if certain forms of asshattery are a symptom of the left or the right exclusively, and not behaviors that are practiced by certain members of every political orientation.
"You have to love how right bloggers complain about xyz and then go and zxy."
Partisan dipshits piss me off.
Vista is the new Windows ME. It can't be compared to XP in the way you are attempting. Windows Vista really is a piece of crap, so stop trotting out the same old argument. It's boring.
References are more funny when you don't go, "Here's a link. It shows how smart I am to make up this devilish reference to an influential military theorist from the Napoleonic era."
Reminds me of Ms. Garrison
"All right, kids, it is now my job to teach you the theory of evolution. Now I, for one, think evolution is a bunch of *bullcrap*! But I've been told I have to teach it to you anyway. It was thought up by Charles Darwin and it goes something like this..."
"In the beginning, we were all fish. Okay? Swimming around in the water. And then one day a couple of fish had a retard baby, and the retard baby was different, so it got to live. So Retard Fish goes on to make more retard babies, and then one day, a retard baby fish crawled out of the ocean with its......mutant fish hands... and it had butt sex with a squirrel or something and made this. Retard frog-sqirrel, and then *that* had a retard baby which was a... monkey-fish-frog... And then this monkey-fish-frog had butt sex with that monkey, and that monkey had a mutant retard baby that screwed another monkey... and that made you! So there you go! You're the retarded offspring of five monkeys having butt sex with a fish-squirrel! Congratulations!"
When I think of getting served, my mind's eye conjures images of roast beef dinners and roving gangs of street dancers. "Serving you ads" makes it sound like they're providing a valuable service when in fact they are wasting our time.
We need a more user-centric term that better describes the process of having ads jammed in our faces at every possible opportunity. "Buggering you ads" or something along those lines.
Furthermore, the users pay for the ISP's infrastructure, right? Should the ISP be allowed to hijack that infrastructure for such self-serving ends? Will ad revenue lower subscription fees or pay for higher speed/quality bandwidth?
Intel is like, "No I will not make out with you! Did ya hear that? WARF wants to make out with me in the middle of a die shrink. You got Table Based Data Speculation Circuit for Parallel Processing Computer Man up there talking about God knows what and all WARF can talk about is making out with me. I'm here to make Core 2 Duos, everybody, not to make out with you. Go on with the patent."
I think every new SSD development is fantastic news, be it a success or a flop. It's a bit early to break out the champagne, but affordable SSDs are rapidly approaching, and these stories are welcome good news heralding the upcoming storage revolution. Some of these SSD technologies are destined to be dead ends, but it's important to know what doesn't work as well as what does, and I'm glad these companies are burning money (not my money, haha) to bring us these marvels. The $1000+ SSD that only big corporations, the military, or enthousiasts can afford is infinitely better than the SSD that doesn't exist at all. It's coming!
I think legislative representatives should be under total surveillance by the public during the conduct of their meetings with lobbyists. Every representative should have to hold some kind of open "court" that is recorded when they are doing their work. Fuck this behind closed doors crap. If it's not a national security issue, the public ought to know exactly what politicians are up to. Corporations and interest groups shouldn't be allowed to plead their issue to representatives of the people without the ability for the people to scrutinize their stated positions.
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I pirate games because I don't want to spend money on them. I really don't care that some programmer or company is getting shafted out of my dollars. That's money I could spend on other pleasures. Why would I give them my money so that they can use it to compete with me for tangible resources like real estate, luxuries, and women? I don't bloody care. Call me a thief, so what? What are you going to do about it? Is it unfair, uncivilized, uncouth? Not my problem. I do what I want. In an age when I can download whatever games I want for free, actually paying for them is like putting my money in a shredder. I'm not gonna try to tap dance around it and defend my actions because I really don't have to until I'm standing before a judge. This isn't a troll or sarcastic post. I really don't have any scruples about this crap.
I'd wager XP is also pirated far more than Vista too.
Don't let my Mistress see that.
Do not aim your rifle at anything you do not intend to kill. All it would take is a misfire or accidentally putting it on the wrong setting and you've got brains splattered everywhere. I don't think these fascists thought this the whole way through. Then again, maybe they did :(
I'm getting so tired of comments like this. As if certain forms of asshattery are a symptom of the left or the right exclusively, and not behaviors that are practiced by certain members of every political orientation. "You have to love how right bloggers complain about xyz and then go and zxy." Partisan dipshits piss me off.
Vista is the new Windows ME. It can't be compared to XP in the way you are attempting. Windows Vista really is a piece of crap, so stop trotting out the same old argument. It's boring.
References are more funny when you don't go, "Here's a link. It shows how smart I am to make up this devilish reference to an influential military theorist from the Napoleonic era."
I think the subject line says it all.
And the only way to stop it is to detonate a nuclear bomb and scorch off our atmosphere...
Reminds me of Ms. Garrison "All right, kids, it is now my job to teach you the theory of evolution. Now I, for one, think evolution is a bunch of *bullcrap*! But I've been told I have to teach it to you anyway. It was thought up by Charles Darwin and it goes something like this..." "In the beginning, we were all fish. Okay? Swimming around in the water. And then one day a couple of fish had a retard baby, and the retard baby was different, so it got to live. So Retard Fish goes on to make more retard babies, and then one day, a retard baby fish crawled out of the ocean with its... ...mutant fish hands... and it had butt sex with a squirrel or something and made this. Retard frog-sqirrel, and then *that* had a retard baby which was a... monkey-fish-frog... And then this monkey-fish-frog had butt sex with that monkey, and that monkey had a mutant retard baby that screwed another monkey... and that made you! So there you go! You're the retarded offspring of five monkeys having butt sex with a fish-squirrel! Congratulations!"
Substitute 'Idiots' for 'Penguins' and that's pretty much it.
A slightly smaller number multiplied by zero still equals zero.
When I think of getting served, my mind's eye conjures images of roast beef dinners and roving gangs of street dancers. "Serving you ads" makes it sound like they're providing a valuable service when in fact they are wasting our time.
We need a more user-centric term that better describes the process of having ads jammed in our faces at every possible opportunity. "Buggering you ads" or something along those lines.
Furthermore, the users pay for the ISP's infrastructure, right? Should the ISP be allowed to hijack that infrastructure for such self-serving ends? Will ad revenue lower subscription fees or pay for higher speed/quality bandwidth?
Intel is like, "No I will not make out with you! Did ya hear that? WARF wants to make out with me in the middle of a die shrink. You got Table Based Data Speculation Circuit for Parallel Processing Computer Man up there talking about God knows what and all WARF can talk about is making out with me. I'm here to make Core 2 Duos, everybody, not to make out with you. Go on with the patent."
Just another infinitesimally small chance that my worthless life will be ended swiftly, painlessly, and unexpectedly. w00t.
Not a bear in sight. The Bear Patrol must be working like a charm.
I think every new SSD development is fantastic news, be it a success or a flop. It's a bit early to break out the champagne, but affordable SSDs are rapidly approaching, and these stories are welcome good news heralding the upcoming storage revolution. Some of these SSD technologies are destined to be dead ends, but it's important to know what doesn't work as well as what does, and I'm glad these companies are burning money (not my money, haha) to bring us these marvels. The $1000+ SSD that only big corporations, the military, or enthousiasts can afford is infinitely better than the SSD that doesn't exist at all. It's coming!
A game of ro-sham-bo might be a good voting system too.
Yep! I posted a similar idea but my karma is too low. We need this to happen.
I think legislative representatives should be under total surveillance by the public during the conduct of their meetings with lobbyists. Every representative should have to hold some kind of open "court" that is recorded when they are doing their work. Fuck this behind closed doors crap. If it's not a national security issue, the public ought to know exactly what politicians are up to. Corporations and interest groups shouldn't be allowed to plead their issue to representatives of the people without the ability for the people to scrutinize their stated positions.
That was not flamebait.
It's only bad if it was a wet dream.
What in the name of baby Jesus in a blender is an Archos 605 WiFi?
That has to be the stupidest comment I've ever posted to Slashdot... and I get a "5, Insightful." WTF?
NASA lost 2 of their 5 space-worthy shuttles. Are these really the people we should be listening to about safety?