Repeat after me, "I am not entitled to a large network of friends. No one should be forced to like me or associate with me. If I want to meet people and gain friends I will have to make myself more appealing to those people in some way."
Now, continue repeating that until you stop being a jackass.
I am a geek now, I have always been a geek. My definition of "Party" has always been slightly different that many other peoples. There was no shortage of social opportunity for me. I was just pickier about which ones I chose. There is NO REASON for the people I chose not to socialize with to have to allow me to participate in their group activities.
While I don't care for the two morons above me, solemnly intoning the same old "blah blah obligation to shareholders blah blah maximizing profit" garbage, the fact is Google doesn't give a shit what some rabble of slashlosers thinks of its motives and morals. No one of consequence at google is going to see or care about your clever "chinese revenue" line. But, go a head and post them here if it feels good! All it says to me is that you don't really care about chinese people; you're just content to gum their oppressers' ankles from the comfort of your mom's basement.
It is for all intents and purposes a defect, if you thought the product you were buying was a movie/music that you could use however you like.
Except you can't. Re-read the copyright disclaimer when you play a DVD. By buying it, you have paid for the right to watch it, that is all. Even then you can only watch it in certain circumstances (less than 20 of you, not on an oil rig or in a pub etc...). The DVD disc may be be yours to do with what you want, but the data on it is not, and never has been. DRM is simply one step further in enforcing those already existing rights.
I don't agree with DRM, but then I don't agree with Piracy. However I also feel that most movies and music certainly arn't even worth the blank media they are printed on. So what do I do ? I vote with my wallet - I don't buy the disc. At some point down the line I'll watch the movie on Sky, and with the music - well there's plenty of other music out there that isn't DRMd and is far better quality (as in ability not bit rate).
We have too many TLDs now. Remember all those stupid TLDs from the last round, like ".museum"? Nobody uses them. The big-name museums are under.org or a country domain. (Here's the complete list of domains registered under.museum. Most of them don't even work, and for the ones that do, they're usually an alternate name.) Have you ever seen a domain in ".aero" or ".pro"? ".biz" gets used, but mostly by sleazy operators. There are so few legitimate businesses in ".biz" that it has the reputation of a strip mall in South Central LA.
ICANN should stop considering new TLDs. In fact, it might be worthwhile to start phasing out some of the newer TLDs due to lack of interest.
...and I'll say it again: Conservative views have no place on Slashdot. And I fully support abusing the moderation system to marginalize conservatives.
C: Maybe they don't. Hawaiians are too dumb. They can't figure out barometric pressure. They don't know what that means.
D: They have wind some days.
C: Here's the problem with weather in Hawai'i. There's a bunch of big words.
D: Yeah.
C: And they can't handle big words over there, because they're the world's dumbest people.
D: Well, they can't (sic) handle big words, but they must have three letters.
C: Yeah, they handle big words, but it's got to be the name of a fat chick or some drink. They don't do science. Close your eyes and picture all the great Hawaiian scientists over the years. (Laughs) They're retarded people. They stay on the island. They're in-bred, obviously. They're the dumbest people we have.
D: I have met some smart South Pacific people. Not who lived there.
C: People are smart enough to move. Everyone close your eyes and think of all the amazing contributions the Hawaiian scientific community has made over the years. (Long pause) Uh... They're stupid people.
D: All right. Let's hear from them. Let's hear what they have to say. It'd be interesting to hear what they have to say.
C: What, the Hawaiians? First off, they don't know how to dial the phone. They can't call. They don't know what they're doing. They have big calves. That's all. They're stupid people. We really should start bringing some of them in 'cause they're strong. They're a strong, sturdy breed.
Why do mentally-handicapped nerds seem to be incapable of writing anything other than point-by-point rebuttals? Is this an Aspergers thing? Is it too much to ask, that you autistic computer weenies take an introductory english composition class? If your ideas have to be propped up with quoted text, they aren't very good ones.
Why do mentally-handicapped nerds seem to be incapable of writing anything other than point-by-point rebuttals? Is this an Aspergers thing? Is it too much to ask, that you autistic computer weenies take an introductory english composition class? If your ideas have to be propped up with quoted text, they aren't very good ones.
This amuses the hell out of me. None of my friends read slashdot; virtually none of them even know about it. I don't know the point of this post, maybe I'm just gloating. But I am so grateful that I don't have to hang out with 'computer people' to have a social life. I can totally see why you guys alienate anyone who isn't ugly or autistic.
Oh and Richard, this site doesn't owe you anything. Fuck off
The first thing I did, after clicking the link to this discussion, was to search for the string "hacks?" I do it every time I see one of these book reviews, and, like clockwork, I'll find some downtrodden internet weenie complaining that his secret nerd language is being misused. Who cares? O'reilly doesn't care. Their customers don't care. Hackers don't care; it's the wannabes that have to start bullshit language wars wherever they go.
I don't think your resume qualifies you to tell someone how they can or can't use a stupid word.
This is unrelated, but, your myspace profile- You've had it for a year and a half and it only has 11 friends listed. That's fucking sad. 27 years old, no degree, no social life, pasty and overweight. You are wasting your life in front of your computer. Stop it.
When you're skinny, women want to have sex with you. You don't have to wait until your 26 to feel a breast.
When you're skinny, you don't have to socialize with "computer people."
That's right. Who did you think you were fooling? Those nerds that make up you're little 'circle' of friends- they're only hanging out with you because no one else will talk to them. They'd sell you out just to have an attractive girl brush against them- and you'd do the same to them. You're certainly no more 'moral' than the rest of- its just that you have no choice but to follow the rules and defer to your social betters.
Some internet weenie that gets quoted alot here once wrote that nerds lived their sad, isolated lives in high school, "because they had better things to do?" Want to know what the nerds in my high school were doing? Collecting dolls. Watching cartoons. Playing stupid card games. Sitting in front of a screen for every moment of their free time.
"better things to do, indeed."
What are they doing now? Working at best-buy, in-and-out of junior college. Yeah, assholes- you're really going to get cancer cured by drinking mountain dew and playing warcraft and watching 'space trek.' LOL
So, I guess adult life hasn't changed much from high school, has it? Slashdot should change its slogan from "news for nerds..." to "people that go to junior college"
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Repeat after me, "I am not entitled to a large network of friends. No one should be forced to like me or associate with me. If I want to meet people and gain friends I will have to make myself more appealing to those people in some way."
Now, continue repeating that until you stop being a jackass.
I am a geek now, I have always been a geek. My definition of "Party" has always been slightly different that many other peoples. There was no shortage of social opportunity for me. I was just pickier about which ones I chose. There is NO REASON for the people I chose not to socialize with to have to allow me to participate in their group activities.
Bah. Why am I even responding to you...
Fuck you, shithead
While I don't care for the two morons above me, solemnly intoning the same old "blah blah obligation to shareholders blah blah maximizing profit" garbage, the fact is Google doesn't give a shit what some rabble of slashlosers thinks of its motives and morals. No one of consequence at google is going to see or care about your clever "chinese revenue" line. But, go a head and post them here if it feels good! All it says to me is that you don't really care about chinese people; you're just content to gum their oppressers' ankles from the comfort of your mom's basement.
Except you can't. Re-read the copyright disclaimer when you play a DVD. By buying it, you have paid for the right to watch it, that is all. Even then you can only watch it in certain circumstances (less than 20 of you, not on an oil rig or in a pub etc...). The DVD disc may be be yours to do with what you want, but the data on it is not, and never has been. DRM is simply one step further in enforcing those already existing rights.
I don't agree with DRM, but then I don't agree with Piracy. However I also feel that most movies and music certainly arn't even worth the blank media they are printed on. So what do I do ? I vote with my wallet - I don't buy the disc. At some point down the line I'll watch the movie on Sky, and with the music - well there's plenty of other music out there that isn't DRMd and is far better quality (as in ability not bit rate).
ICANN should stop considering new TLDs. In fact, it might be worthwhile to start phasing out some of the newer TLDs due to lack of interest.
...and I'll say it again: Conservative views have no place on Slashdot. And I fully support abusing the moderation system to marginalize conservatives.
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I bow before your clumsy vocabulary.
Did you hear me, you repulsive faggots? NO DIGG.
"We like to complain."
Adam Carolla: I'm sure.
D: Cause it's the same everyday, no matter what.
C: Maybe they don't. Hawaiians are too dumb. They can't figure out barometric pressure. They don't know what that means.
D: They have wind some days.
C: Here's the problem with weather in Hawai'i. There's a bunch of big words.
D: Yeah.
C: And they can't handle big words over there, because they're the world's dumbest people.
D: Well, they can't (sic) handle big words, but they must have three letters.
C: Yeah, they handle big words, but it's got to be the name of a fat chick or some drink. They don't do science. Close your eyes and picture all the great Hawaiian scientists over the years. (Laughs) They're retarded people. They stay on the island. They're in-bred, obviously. They're the dumbest people we have.
D: I have met some smart South Pacific people. Not who lived there.
C: People are smart enough to move. Everyone close your eyes and think of all the amazing contributions the Hawaiian scientific community has made over the years. (Long pause) Uh
D: All right. Let's hear from them. Let's hear what they have to say. It'd be interesting to hear what they have to say.
C: What, the Hawaiians? First off, they don't know how to dial the phone. They can't call. They don't know what they're doing. They have big calves. That's all. They're stupid people. We really should start bringing some of them in 'cause they're strong. They're a strong, sturdy breed.
Why do mentally-handicapped nerds seem to be incapable of writing anything other than point-by-point rebuttals? Is this an Aspergers thing? Is it too much to ask, that you autistic computer weenies take an introductory english composition class? If your ideas have to be propped up with quoted text, they aren't very good ones.
Why do mentally-handicapped nerds seem to be incapable of writing anything other than point-by-point rebuttals? Is this an Aspergers thing? Is it too much to ask, that you autistic computer weenies take an introductory english composition class? If your ideas have to be propped up with quoted text, they aren't very good ones.
Oh, ok.
It's like AIDS, but for celibate piggies!
It's like AIDS, for fat people.
This amuses the hell out of me. None of my friends read slashdot; virtually none of them even know about it. I don't know the point of this post, maybe I'm just gloating. But I am so grateful that I don't have to hang out with 'computer people' to have a social life. I can totally see why you guys alienate anyone who isn't ugly or autistic.
Oh and Richard, this site doesn't owe you anything. Fuck off
Just a reminder: google can do whatever the fuck it wants to, and doesn't need to take suggestions from busybody internet weenies.
I don't think your resume qualifies you to tell someone how they can or can't use a stupid word.
This is unrelated, but, your myspace profile- You've had it for a year and a half and it only has 11 friends listed. That's fucking sad. 27 years old, no degree, no social life, pasty and overweight. You are wasting your life in front of your computer. Stop it.
When you're skinny, you don't have to socialize with "computer people."
That's right. Who did you think you were fooling? Those nerds that make up you're little 'circle' of friends- they're only hanging out with you because no one else will talk to them. They'd sell you out just to have an attractive girl brush against them- and you'd do the same to them. You're certainly no more 'moral' than the rest of- its just that you have no choice but to follow the rules and defer to your social betters.
Some internet weenie that gets quoted alot here once wrote that nerds lived their sad, isolated lives in high school, "because they had better things to do?" Want to know what the nerds in my high school were doing? Collecting dolls. Watching cartoons. Playing stupid card games. Sitting in front of a screen for every moment of their free time.
"better things to do, indeed."
What are they doing now? Working at best-buy, in-and-out of junior college. Yeah, assholes- you're really going to get cancer cured by drinking mountain dew and playing warcraft and watching 'space trek.' LOL
I'm so happy I don't have to socialize with "computer people." Jesus.
Nothing tastes as good as being skinny feels.
So, I guess adult life hasn't changed much from high school, has it? Slashdot should change its slogan from "news for nerds..." to "people that go to junior college"
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Fuck every single one of you.
but bill cosby is an "en eye jee jee ee arr."
you guys like to talk about computers? you guys like talk about lunix?