Posted by Onideus Mad Hatter on 08/01/07 04:10

On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 20:24:41 -0700, Chaddy2222
<spamlovermailbox-sicurity@yahoo.com.au> wrote:

>Hmmm well it's not really, as you do need a plug-in to view Flash and
>a lot of people can't use it.

WRONG! You need a browser to view a website and a computer to go
online and an Internet connection to visit a site, so really, out of
all that, installing Flash is pretty much the EASIEST part of the
equation and the one that requires the LEAST amount of effort. Flash
installs itself automagically in just a few seconds on a broadband
connection with no more than a couple clicks from the user. And what
do you mean a lot of people can't use it? Flash works on pretty much
ANYTHING, unless you're some idiot running some obscure hardware and
software combination like a PowerPC running Linux...although even then
there are work arounds to get Flash to work.

>Did you not read what I wrote about me
>not being able to read any of your sites content with my screen reader
>(text to speech software). I would need to actually disable Flash to
>read your site that way.

Um, hello, the only time you would be using a screen reader is IF YOU
WERE FUCKING BLIND! And if you were blind...why in the fuck would you
have Flash enabled?

I mean maybe if you wanna try and claim you're simply illiterate...
*rolls eyes*

Further, if it was THAT important to you, why wouldn't you simply copy
the text portions and paste them into say Notepad?

Or simply disable javascript. On my Backwater site it's not actually
detecting the presence of Flash, it's detecting the presence of
javascript. The reason I and many other developers do it that way is
that it's much easier to temporarily disable javascript than it is to
disable Flash.

>Admitedly the developers of the text to
>speech packages could do more work in that area, especially with more
>music / band websites being Flash based.

And everything else being Flash based. Really, the problem isn't with
Flash, the problem is with those third party software developers who
are simply lazy fucking antediluvian bastards. I mean if Google can
setup their search engine to spider all the text content in a Flash
file...yeah, anybody can do it, there is no excuse. Of course there
is also blame to be put on the USERS who WANT that functionality since
it's largely up to you to contact those third party vendors and tell
them what functionality you're looking for. If they get enough people
asking for it, they'll develop it.

>Oh and I do agree with your ideas in that article.

Yay, you read it, congratulations you're not retarded.

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Onideus Mad Hatter
mhm ¹ x ¹
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http://www.backwater-productions.net/hatter-blog


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"You're only one of the best if you're striving to become one of the
best."

"I didn't make reality, Sunshine, I just verbally bitch slapped you
with it."

"I'm not a professional, I'm an artist."

"Your Usenet blinders are my best friend."

"Usenet Filters - Learn to shut yourself the fuck up!"

"Drugs killed Jesus you know...oh wait, no, that was the Jews, my
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"There are clingy things in the grass...burrs 'n such...mmmm..."

"The more I learn the more I'm killing my idols."

"Is it wrong to incur and then use the hate ridden, vengeful stupidity
of complete strangers in random Usenet froups to further my art?"

"Freedom is only a concept, like race it's merely a social construct
that doesn't really exist outside of your ability to convince others
of its relevancy."

"Next time slow up a lil, then maybe you won't jump the gun and start
creamin yer panties before it's time to pop the champagne proper."

"Reality is directly proportionate to how creative you are."

"People are pretty fucking high on themselves if they think that
they're just born with a soul. *snicker*...yeah, like they're just
givin em out for free."

"Quible, quible said the Hare. Quite a lot of quibling...everywhere.
So the Hare took a long stare and decided at best, to leave the rest,
to their merry little mess."

"There's a difference between 'bad' and 'so earth shatteringly
horrible it makes the angels scream in terror as they violently rip
their heads off, their blood spraying into the faces of a thousand
sweet innocent horrified children, who will forever have the terrible
images burned into their tiny little minds'."

"How sad that you're such a poor judge of style that you can't even
properly gauge the artistic worth of your own efforts."

"Those who record history are those who control history."

"I am the living embodiment of hell itself in all its tormentive rage,
endless suffering, unfathomable pain and unending horror...but you
don't get sent to me...I come for you."

"Ideally in a fight I'd want a BGM-109A with a W80 250 kiloton
tactical thermonuclear fusion based war head."

"Tell me, would you describe yourself more as a process or a
function?"

"Apparently this group has got the market cornered on stupid.
Intelligence is down 137 points across the board and the forecast
indicates an increase in Webtv users."

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