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Re:over 50 or over 35
Never trust anyone over 30!
Never trust anyone under 31, either.
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Re:I wish the Baby Boomers would just die
IHBT
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Re:I wish the Baby Boomers would just die
How about the environment? When I was a kid you had to roll your windows up when driving through Sauget, even when it was over 100f (38c) because the stench would burn your lungs. My parents' generation ripped a hole in the ozone, my generation outlawed CFCs worldwide and the hole is shrinking. My parents' generation started AFDC, which actually caused the poverty LBJ declared war on to get worse. My generation abolished AFDC and started TANF, which is geared to getting poor people into the workforce and out of poverty.
My parents' generation started the Vietnam war, our protests stopped it and got a President to resign in shame. Look at what your (cowardly anonymous GP) generation did - RE-ELECTED the worst President in history who started an even more senseless war just so he and his oil buddies could get rich at the expense of his country.
The only thing my generation fucked up was that we never managed to legalize pot.
And again for the cowardly anonymous GP, back in the '70s there was no incurable STD and "free love" was everywhere. Even nerds could get laid! Women would walk up to ME in bars and ask "wanna fuck?" Nowadays when a woman asks me that, my stock response is "You're a policewoman trying to bust me on a prostitution sting, aren't you?" Eat your heart out, boy. Now get the fuck off my lawn and no, you can't have your balls back!
Fucking kids... *walks away mumbling*
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Re:I wish the Baby Boomers would just die
How about the environment? When I was a kid you had to roll your windows up when driving through Sauget, even when it was over 100f (38c) because the stench would burn your lungs. My parents' generation ripped a hole in the ozone, my generation outlawed CFCs worldwide and the hole is shrinking. My parents' generation started AFDC, which actually caused the poverty LBJ declared war on to get worse. My generation abolished AFDC and started TANF, which is geared to getting poor people into the workforce and out of poverty.
My parents' generation started the Vietnam war, our protests stopped it and got a President to resign in shame. Look at what your (cowardly anonymous GP) generation did - RE-ELECTED the worst President in history who started an even more senseless war just so he and his oil buddies could get rich at the expense of his country.
The only thing my generation fucked up was that we never managed to legalize pot.
And again for the cowardly anonymous GP, back in the '70s there was no incurable STD and "free love" was everywhere. Even nerds could get laid! Women would walk up to ME in bars and ask "wanna fuck?" Nowadays when a woman asks me that, my stock response is "You're a policewoman trying to bust me on a prostitution sting, aren't you?" Eat your heart out, boy. Now get the fuck off my lawn and no, you can't have your balls back!
Fucking kids... *walks away mumbling*
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Re:This is really sweet
Your 35 year old "experienced old lady" is my hot young sweet thing.
Please don't think I'm bragging, as being a nerd I don't get laid much (and when I do I have to pay for it), but as I somehow managed to live over half a century, miraculously not dying, I've had sex with women from 18 to 50. And I have to say, experience is more than just age. This old diary entry is about the very best sex I ever had in my life; the woman was in her early 20s (as was I).
OTOH I had trouble getting it up for 50 year old Chris, who wasn't worth a shit in bed. Fortunately the most she ever cost was a beer or two. The most expensive I ever had cost me a house, a car, and part of my pension.
The worst thing about being a single 55 year old man is that all the women my age are ugly.
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Get the hell off my lawn!Intertoober 1: "Wow, Jerry, look - is that an OLD guy?"
Intertoober 2: "I don't know, maybe it's an old woman"
Intertoober 3: "Woof woof! On the intertoobs, nobody knows you're a geezer!"
Looks like one of the geezers running the Telegraph finally got an internet connection, and with awe and amazement discovered that he wasn't the only one.
I've been on the internet since 1997 when I started my web site, originally hosted by my ISP before registering the domain. I ran a FPS gaming site from late that year for a few more years, and got on MySpace in 2004 IIRC, although I don't go there much. I've spent most of my "social networking on the intarwebs" at nerd sites.
And it annoys the hell out of me to get junk mail from the AARP. I'm not retired, damn it, I'm only 55!
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Re:Can I make a 3D fake pussy?Can I make a 3D fake pussy? and fuck it all night long I could think of more... constructive things to do with it, but each to his/her own. You can think of more constructive things to do with a fake pussy than fucking it all night long? Like what, you sick bastard?!! He's probably a Mac user. Therefore, he'd rather print a dildo and jam it up his ass all night long. Really disgusting, that sick perverted fuck.
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Going full circle
In the 19th century they had pocket watches. Then watches got small enough to strap on your wrist. Then we got cell phones, threw away our wristwatches and put the phone in a pocket.
In the 19 century we had vacuum tubes. In the mid 20th century these were replaced by semiconductors, which were smaller and less bulky. Now we're back to tubes again, and the TFA sounds like these are kind of nano vacuum tubes, only without the vacuum.
The nanotube radio is likely like these geek toys nerds have been building since the early 1900s. All you need to build one is a diode, some wire, a piece of wood, and headphones to listen to it with. They used to call these things "catwhisker radios", the "cat whisker" being the diode.
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Re:But...But can it run on Linux?
Dude, you can run linux on a wristwatch. The question is, can it run Vista?
From an old K5 diary:At any rate, I tell the guy about my dead Celeron and how I want to upgrade the motherboard, and get some memory, and get a video card so I can plug it into the TV. He tries to sell me a supercomputer cluster, and I say no, I'm not much into computer gaming any more so a pretty low end one would do.
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Re:Do not spam?
Mods, the GP was indeed humorous but its writer deserved mod points (you don't get points for "funny"; mod me however you want, my karma's excellent so "funny" is fine). His point in the admittedly humorous post was that these lists would be completely worthess, as there is no possible way to enforce them.
This is completely unlike the "do not call" lists; these are country-specific. If I spam your phone and you're on a do not call list, we're most likely to share the same government (at least so far) You can be prosecuted.
OTOH, the AC's post above this one should be modded funny. Oh, right, tough room...
This post void where prohibited by law
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Re:What's so special about that press card?
Someone holding a press pass acts as proxy for the wider population
Apologies for this US-centric post, but I don't remember "reporter" being on the last ballot I cast. I also don't recall reading that Thoman Paine needed a press pass for his "Common Sense" articles.
I've read the Constitution, and I don't remember anything in the 1st amendment regarding press passes, or government powers to issue them. That document doesn't grant rights to citizens; it specifically states that you already have all rights. What it does is grant power to government, and limited power at that,
Sadly, opinions like yours have allowed government to gain far greater powers than granted by the Constitution.
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Re:So what makes your comic so special?Wow. Just... wow.
Your comment made me look up KSHE on Wikipedia to see if the first stereo FM rock and roll radio station in existance would be notable enough to show up on Wikipedia.
KSHE is there, and contains a bit of trivia I didn't know about ("Sweet Meat, a likeness of which originally appeared on the Blodwyn Pig LP, 'A Head Rings Out'.") However...KSHE originally played lighter, female-oriented rock when it first started operating in 1961 as KSHE (Hence, the reason for the SHE in KSHE), Over the years, KSHE gradually incorporated more mainstream rock to become the station that it is today.
My dad listened to KSHE before its format change to "Real Rock Radio" (which is not its "current" slogan as the Wiki article says, but has been its slogan since the day of its format change from light jazz (NOT "female oriented rock"). Herb Alpert is most decidedly neither rock, nor female oriented.
KSHE, one of the oldest continually operating rock stations in the country, will celebrate its 40th birthday as a rock station in November, 2007.
It did not "gradually" change, the format change was sudden.
It did not broadcast "mainstream rock"; what it broadcast was most decidedly NOT mainstream, but the non-mainstream rock itself became mainstream. For instance, nobody but KSHE played Jimi Hendrix. The black stations wouldn't play him because he was a rocker, and the rock stations wouldn't play him because he was black. He was decidedly NOT mainstream when KSHE started playing his music.
It is not "one of" the oldest, it is THE oldest.KSHE broadcasts RBDS data. Its morning show is a syndicated feed of the Bob & Tom Show, out of Indianapolis.
Bob and Tom are not KSHE homegrown nor are relevant to KSHE itself; their (IMO bad) show is filler. That godawful show also plays here in Springfield, IL on WCVS. Its mention does NOT belong in a Wikipedia article about KSHE.
I wrote an acccount of this then-teenager's discovery of KSHE on the day of its format change in a 2004 K5 article titled Birth of a label-sanctioned pirate radio station. It garnered many comments and emails, including an email from one of KSHE's first disk jockeys who worked at KSHE in the beginning and waxed nostalgic over the article.
Most of the short Wikipedia article about KSHE was dropped from a male bovine's rectum. I now see where Wikipedia gets its reputation for inaccuracy.
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In other news worlds hottest pepper "discovered"
The hottest pepper record has been broken.
In the Scoville Organoleptic Test, the Bhut Jolokia pepper scores over 1,000,000
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Re:Nyquist's theorem
The Nyquist theorum is a mathematical proof that you cannot produce a tone at more than half the sample rate. E.g., at CD's 44k samples per second, the highest tone that can be reproduced is 22khz.
If your 300 Hz tone has 30kHz harmonics, your CD's sample of that tone will NOT sound like your original 300 Hz tone. What you can't hear can color what you can.
Nyquist doesn't speak to aliasing, either. At 44k samples per second, a 15 kHz tone has three samples per crest. At that small number of samples there's no way to tell a sine wave from a sawtooth wave.
However, analog has its problems as well - noise being the primary problem.
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Re:In a Related Story...Good riddance to Bad Tech (2005)
The 8-track tape
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This sorry piece of crap is proof positive of American stupidity. The cassette - the (now obsolete) four track, two-spindle, 1/8th inch, 1
Nevertheless, the 8-track was born anyway. With its transport speed at twice the 4-track cassette's speed, it should have been audibly superior. However, the "powers that be" decided that 8-tracks were going to be for automobiles, which at the time were not as well insulated from outside sounds and wind as today's cars, and with the auto's horrible acoustics, it was OK for a car's music to sound like effluent.
But the deliberately bad sound wasn't bad enough. The eight track tape had a single spindle, a very clever design where the tape fed from the center of the spindle, around a capstain roller inside the housing and back to the outside of the roll of tape. This made for an expensive setup, and one that was prone to wow and flutter, as well as having the tape get "eaten" by the tape player. And unlike a cassette, if your 8-track got ate, you might as well throw it in the trash.
But wait, there's more! This thing was deemed to be for the car, while cassettes were going to be (by about 1970 or so) for the home.
This made no sense whatever, since the "portable" eight track took up as much space as four cassettes, without being able to play any longer than a cassette. In fact, you could buy a longer playing cassette than 8-track.
But the one thing more than anything else that made 8-tracks suck like a Hoover was the fact that it had to change tracks four times during an album. This usually necessitated at least one song and usually more being interrupted in the middle!
Folks finally, after about ten years, started figuring this stuff out for themselves and replaced their 8-track cartriges with 4 track cassettes. Me? I never had an 8-track, although all my friends did. I, the geek, used the far more logical cassettes since about 1966 or 7. Hah! The geek gets the last laugh again! -
Re:not this again...
There is a very salient point being missed here.Another reason for vinyl's sonic superiority is that no matter how high a sampling rate is, it can never contain all of the data present in an analog groove, Nyquist's theorem to the contrary.
This statement is true, but completely irrelevant. The fact that a recording medium is analog does not mean that it is better at accurately recording and reproducing a sound than a digital medium. Magnetic tapes are also analog recordings. Putting a pencil on a string, hanging it next to a speaker, and having it draw a line on a moving sheet of paper is also an analog recording.
Have you ever heard a CD that you would confuse with a live performance? Neither have I. However, in 1978 I owned a pair of Kenwood 777 speakers, six drivers in each enclosure including fifteen inch woofers, and a German made Dual turntable. If you would put Van Halen's first album on and crank that sucker up to 9 and close your eyes, Van Halen was in the living room. Once when we moved, the last thing to go into the new place was guitars and amps. We then opened the tequila and proceeded to crank that Van Halen album.
The next day we met the new neighbors. "Man", they said, "your band kicks ass!" They thought it was live.
However, if you have a digital master for an analog medium, or an analog master for a digital medium, you have the worst of both worlds. You have the Nyquist limit which cuts all harmonics above the limit, distorting tones below the limit as well as digital's aliasing (which is why you'll never convince anyone a digital sample is live), as well as analog's noise.
In short, if you have a digital master, the CD will sound better. If you have an analog master, the vinyl will sound better.
Analog suffers from another thing - unlike digital, the quality of the input device is paramount. A Cheap turntable is not going to sound as good as a cheap CD player.
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No Apple fans here today?
Am I the only one who remembers what the MS in MSNBC stands for? I did note that one poster said they got a cut of every Zune sold (that's what, $2.78 so far?)
Get with the program guys, this is an Apple fanboy vs Microsoft fanboy thread! Let us Linux fanboys put on the popcorn and watch you two duke it out.
Meanwhile, we Linux fans have our own download service. And unlike Microsaoft or Apple, ours is MAFIAA-free, DRM-free, and FREE (as in both speech and beer)! And you're not tied to oour platform to use it.
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Re:What I don't get...
Only one? Bothe Bush and Cheney have DUIs on their records. It's sad whan an old criminal like me has a better police record (IE, "none") than both the President and Vice President.
Of course, our previous Governor is headed for prison, as is some clown (Klutzo the Clown, in fact) who used to be a policeman but who is now knows ans "Klutzo the Child Molester".
My elected officials and law enforcement officials are such wonderful people! At least I don't live in Chicago!
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Hardware, Kernel & SecurityThere is probably much speculation about this as it applies to hardware as a service, especially the security of said hardware.
However, I found this to be more interesting.
GNAA Announces responsibility for kernel backdoor
GNAA Announces responsibility for kernel backdoor
By Tim CopperfieldRaleigh, NC - GNAA (Gay Nigger Association of America) this afternoon announced one of their loyal members was responsible for planting the "backdoor" inside the popular opensores operating system, Lunix (Stocks, Websites).
In a shocking announcement this afternoon, GNAA representative goat-see revealed that the mistery hacker who penetrated high-security defenses of the Lunix "source code" repository and injected viral gay nigger seed deep inside the kernel was indeed a full-time GNAA member.
"This is serious," goat-see began. This is a first event of such magnitude since GNAA opened its doors to new members in 1996. Until now, we were gathering new members by announcing our group information on a popular troll website, slashdot.org, but this is a whole new era. By injecting our holy gay nigger seed right into the Lunix kernel, we will be able to immediately collect thousands of members. "Make the most of the next six weeks," he added. "We will grow in numbers more than you can possibly imagine".
Insertion of the GNAA backdoor came right between the consideration of Novell to buy out the entire Lunix Kernel programming team, and will most likely positively affect the decision. By adding all the gay niggers working for Novell with the gay niggers developing Lunix kernel source, GNAA will be all-powerful and will begin plotting our next plans to add "backdoors" into the next favorite operating system, BeOS.
About GNAA:
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Are you GAY ?
Are you a NIGGER ?
Are you a GAY NIGGER ?
If you answered "Yes" to all of the above questions, then GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) might be exactly what you've been looking for!
Join GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) today, and enjoy all the benefits of being a full-time GNAA member.
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Why not? It's quick and easy - only 3 simple steps!- First, you have to obtain a copy of GAYNIGGERS FROM OUTER SPACE THE MOVIE and watch it. You can download the movie (~130mb) using BitTorrent.
- Second, you need to succeed in posting a GNAA First Post on slashdot.org, a popular "news for trolls" website.
- Third, you need to join the official GNAA irc channel #GNAA on irc.gnaa.us, and apply for membership.
Talk to one of the ops or any of the other members in the channel to sign up today! Upon submitting your application, you will be required to submit links to your successful First Post, and
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We have hand held supercomputers now
What was a supercomputer when I got my firs computer (A Sinclair 1mz w/ 4k memory) is now called a "mobile phone".
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Re:Total Recall
I'm a nerd, I understand how computers work, and can study the machine. I have a saying I often repeat: a man (or machine) can beat me, cut me, shoot me, bludgeon me, but only a woman can hurt me.
I have a lot of control over any device I can study and understand. I'll never understand real women, and have no control whatever over them. You've heard of women who have cut off men's penises or castrated them? Fortunately that never happened to me.
However, you might want to meet my ex-wife. There are more of these stories, called "The Paxil Diaries"
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Re:Total Recall
I'm a nerd, I understand how computers work, and can study the machine. I have a saying I often repeat: a man (or machine) can beat me, cut me, shoot me, bludgeon me, but only a woman can hurt me.
I have a lot of control over any device I can study and understand. I'll never understand real women, and have no control whatever over them. You've heard of women who have cut off men's penises or castrated them? Fortunately that never happened to me.
However, you might want to meet my ex-wife. There are more of these stories, called "The Paxil Diaries"
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Re:PhD !=geekHaving a PhD does not, of course, preclude nerdiness, but it doesn't guarantee it, either. My old boss Charlie (now retired in Florida) had a PhD and was, in fact, a true geek. OTOH, the fellow now in the next office from mine has a PhD but is dumb as a box of rocks, and has no geek qualifications whatever aside from being a fat dork who wears glasses. It doesn't take a high IQ to obtain a PhD, just stubbornness and a good work ethic. It does require a three digit IQ to be a nerd.
The #1 all time famous nerd was Niel Armstrong, who was an engineer who famously said "I am and always will be a pocket protector wearing nerd". He accomplished the ultimate in nerdiness, being the first man to step foot on another world. That was a nerd's wet dream come true!
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(Linked text is titled "Growing Up With Computers" from 2005, in it is mention of Niel's most famous act of nerdiness. Another of my useless but on-topic scribblings is a two year old blagh titled What is a nerd?) Don't forget Dolph Lundgren Swedish B action Movie star. A native of Stockholm, Dolph Lundgren is a graduate of the Royal Institute of Technology. He has a master's degree in chemical engineering from the University of Sydney (1982), and was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1983 - but quit after two weeks to pursue acting Neil Armstorng Never when TOE to TOE with Rocky Balboa -
Re:Significant Other?
Slashdot mods you -1: Creepy
-1? I'd say he fits right in! +1 creepy! Basements? There's a young lady that wanted to move into my basement, but it's too cold in the winter down there. She pays ME.
So there's an attractive young woman I'm not related to living in my house and I can't get laid. If that isn't nerdy I don't know what is!
As to the GP's sig, that was a vwry logical quote from Mr. Spock.
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Re:The Premise is All Wrong
everyone should know some degree of engineering
Why? That's like saying everyone should know some degree of auto mechanics, but I'd rather hire a mechanic than to do a halfassed job of fixing my car myself (and bleed all over the engine)
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Re:Buy low...
Ha, I beat you to it!
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Re:Meh
Isn't everyone jumping on the linux bandwagon for a little P.R.?
I'm not, are you?
In answer to TFA's questions:
"Aren't we all supposed to be grown-up journalists, or bloggers, or whatever?
No. In fact, most people blaghing and journaling and whatevering are either very young, or very immature. I'm 55 and I never managed to grow up, thank God.
Forbes is a religious magazine, devoted to the worshipers of money, the love of which the Christian bible says is the root of all evil. Lyons is a troll. Now, I've wondered for years, if you troll trolls (especially in in meatspace), does that make you a troll yourself? I hope not!
Aren't Linux and Free Software supposed to be about love and harmony and making the world a better place?
No, that would be Bhuddhism, which worshipers of money consider to be even more evil than Christianity.
Can't we, please, smile on our brother, everybody love one another, right now?
Ha ha ha HA AH HE HE ho ho HO HO HA HA HA STOP IT YER KILLIN' ME!!!
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Re:Meh
Isn't everyone jumping on the linux bandwagon for a little P.R.?
I'm not, are you?
In answer to TFA's questions:
"Aren't we all supposed to be grown-up journalists, or bloggers, or whatever?
No. In fact, most people blaghing and journaling and whatevering are either very young, or very immature. I'm 55 and I never managed to grow up, thank God.
Forbes is a religious magazine, devoted to the worshipers of money, the love of which the Christian bible says is the root of all evil. Lyons is a troll. Now, I've wondered for years, if you troll trolls (especially in in meatspace), does that make you a troll yourself? I hope not!
Aren't Linux and Free Software supposed to be about love and harmony and making the world a better place?
No, that would be Bhuddhism, which worshipers of money consider to be even more evil than Christianity.
Can't we, please, smile on our brother, everybody love one another, right now?
Ha ha ha HA AH HE HE ho ho HO HO HA HA HA STOP IT YER KILLIN' ME!!!
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Re:Meh
Isn't everyone jumping on the linux bandwagon for a little P.R.?
I'm not, are you?
In answer to TFA's questions:
"Aren't we all supposed to be grown-up journalists, or bloggers, or whatever?
No. In fact, most people blaghing and journaling and whatevering are either very young, or very immature. I'm 55 and I never managed to grow up, thank God.
Forbes is a religious magazine, devoted to the worshipers of money, the love of which the Christian bible says is the root of all evil. Lyons is a troll. Now, I've wondered for years, if you troll trolls (especially in in meatspace), does that make you a troll yourself? I hope not!
Aren't Linux and Free Software supposed to be about love and harmony and making the world a better place?
No, that would be Bhuddhism, which worshipers of money consider to be even more evil than Christianity.
Can't we, please, smile on our brother, everybody love one another, right now?
Ha ha ha HA AH HE HE ho ho HO HO HA HA HA STOP IT YER KILLIN' ME!!!
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PhD !=geek
Having a PhD does not, of course, preclude nerdiness, but it doesn't guarantee it, either. My old boss Charlie (now retired in Florida) had a PhD and was, in fact, a true geek. OTOH, the fellow now in the next office from mine has a PhD but is dumb as a box of rocks, and has no geek qualifications whatever aside from being a fat dork who wears glasses. It doesn't take a high IQ to obtain a PhD, just stubbornness and a good work ethic. It does require a three digit IQ to be a nerd.
The #1 all time famous nerd was Niel Armstrong, who was an engineer who famously said "I am and always will be a pocket protector wearing nerd". He accomplished the ultimate in nerdiness, being the first man to step foot on another world. That was a nerd's wet dream come true!
-mcgrew
(Linked text is titled "Growing Up With Computers" from 2005, in it is mention of Niel's most famous act of nerdiness. Another of my useless but on-topic scribblings is a two year old blagh titled What is a nerd?) -
Re:Er, where?
RTFA? You must be new here
As to the +3, today's moderators seem to all be hung over or something (and I probably forgot to check the "no karma bonus" box). I saw a whole bunch of comments that were on topic that made me LOL and were modded "offtopic".
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Re:Er, where?
I get younger every day. Back when I was regularly contributing to K5 someone once said "how can someone who has teenagers rant like one?"
Once a nerd, always a nerd. Niel Armstrong once said "I alwasy was and always will be, a pocket protector wearing nerd." The only pocket calculators that existed when I went to high school took a three story building to house, so I cheated in math class with a slide rule.
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Re:Dear ICANN:It began innocently enough with "trolling" borrowed from fishing terminology.
Actually, its trawling,/i>, but nice try
Wikipedia says you're wrongTrolling is a method of fishing in which some form of bait, such as a fishing lure or a living fish, is drawn on a line through the water. Trolling from a moving boat is a technique of Big-game fishing and is used when fishing from boats to catch large open-water species such as tuna and marlin. Trolling is also a freshwater angling technique
On the other hand,Trawling is a method of fishing that involves actively pulling a fishing net through the water behind one or more boats, called trawlers.
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Re:Email them?
OK, I know yours was a joke post, but something pissed me off for YEARS that I don't think should be allowed. I wanted to register mcgrew.org or alternately mcgrew.com back when com, org, and net (and ones you can't get like gov and edu) were the only roots.
What infuriated me was that some sleazeballs had registered
Eventually they opened up
Of course, if I had actually managed to get mcgrew.com, the comedian with the same name as me out in Colorado probably would have sued me for it, despite the fact that I'm 10 years older than him.
-mcgrew
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Re:His arguments are logical, but...
True, but we're talking about safety, not villany. I'm aghast and disgusted by terrorism, but not the least bit afraid of it. My chances of being killed by a terrorist are lower than my chances of slipping on ice this winter and dying from the fall. I see little reason to spend extra money on terrorism; regular law enforcement funds should do. I'm certainly not willing to give up any of my rights to fight terrorism.
OTOH my chances of dying on the highway is scarily real. As a former cigarette addict I'll most likely die from cancer, caused by the corporate terrorists, who Google informs me kill half a million people a year. Heart disease doesn't run in my family, but that kills another half a million people.
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Re:Petty cashSting said:
Poets, priests and poiticians
A horse is a four legged animal. That does not mean that a four legged animal is a horse.
Have words to thank for their positions
Words that scream for your submission
And no-one's jamming their transmission
And when their eloquence escapes you
Their logic ties you up and rapes you
I shall add a bit of emphasis to what I said:
"But hell, you expect thieves and con men to tell the truth in a contract?"
I expect honorable men to tell the truth, in a contract or otherwise. I do NOT expect thieves and con men to be honorable.
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Re:His arguments are logical, but...
If I had mod points today I'd mod that funny, but alas today all my comments are being modded "flamebait" and "troll". The Microsoft, DEA, MAFIAA, and Sony employees must have mod points today. My karma was excellent this morning, it's probably in the shitter now.
Or maybe today's mods are familiar with my old stuff.
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Re:Nah it'll just be outsourced
MUST... NOT... FEED... THE... TROLLS...
Oh fuck it. Look, boss, lazy has absolutely NOTHING to do with it. In the third world countries you're outsourcing this shitwork to, you can feed a family of ten for two dollars, rent a house for fifty bucks a month, and ride anywhere for a dime.
It's not that Americans don't want to do the work, it's that we can't afford to live on the starvation wages you cheapassed bastards pay.
Asshole. My only consolation is knowing you'll burn in hell.
-mcgrew -
Re:Nah it'll just be outsourced
MUST... NOT... FEED... THE... TROLLS...
Oh fuck it. Look, boss, lazy has absolutely NOTHING to do with it. In the third world countries you're outsourcing this shitwork to, you can feed a family of ten for two dollars, rent a house for fifty bucks a month, and ride anywhere for a dime.
It's not that Americans don't want to do the work, it's that we can't afford to live on the starvation wages you cheapassed bastards pay.
Asshole. My only consolation is knowing you'll burn in hell.
-mcgrew -
Generation Y?
Look, kids, I'm what they call a "boomer". They call us that because fireworks and guns were legal when we were kids. What? Speak up, I can't hear you! We were also known as "goddamned potsmoking hippies".
The next generation was called "generation X" or alternately "Goddamned cocaine-soaked Yuppies".
The next generation was Generation Y. They're also known as "Goddamn punks", "Sales Clerks", "fry cooks", "outsourced and unemployed" and "crackheads".
So your nomenclature is a bit off. These kids would be known as "Generation Z" IINM. Also known as "GODDAMNED KIDS GET THE HELL OFF MY LAWN!"
-mcgrew -
Generation Y?
Look, kids, I'm what they call a "boomer". They call us that because fireworks and guns were legal when we were kids. What? Speak up, I can't hear you! We were also known as "goddamned potsmoking hippies".
The next generation was called "generation X" or alternately "Goddamned cocaine-soaked Yuppies".
The next generation was Generation Y. They're also known as "Goddamn punks", "Sales Clerks", "fry cooks", "outsourced and unemployed" and "crackheads".
So your nomenclature is a bit off. These kids would be known as "Generation Z" IINM. Also known as "GODDAMNED KIDS GET THE HELL OFF MY LAWN!"
-mcgrew -
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Hi, my name is steve, and I'm a trollbiter. In the attempt to rid myself of this horrible addiction, I founded Biters Anonymous back in 2005. Although I stopped responding to K5 trolls some time that year, I still have an occasional relapse (as you can see from this post).
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-mcgrew -
Re:So thats why they'repainting my kids toys with lead based paint! Yep, the chinks are out to destroy us. They murder our pets, poison our kids' toys, chemical burn our women's feet, etc. Fuck 'em. Bring industry back to America, or outsource it to Mexico instead.
Read: Buying cheap "goods" made in China? -
I don't buy it.
I was born in 1952, and was grown before lead was phased out of gasoline. My IQ was measured at 142 (although who knows, it could possibly be higher if I wasn't exposed to lead). But how old is Stephen Hawking? Or any of the other guys that make me look like I have Downs Syndrome?
OTOH my oldest daughter, born in 1985 (after lead was phased out) has a measured IQ of 65 (although I stress MEASURED - I strongly suspect autism). The doctors blame her low IQ on having the umbilical cord wrapped around her neck at birth. Her sister's IQ is 130.
My oldest daughter (IQ 65, Forrest Gump's was higher) has shown no criminal inclination whatever, despite (or because of?) her IQ. Has any correlation, let alone causation, been shown between low IQ and criminality? I would guess that it's the dumb ones that get CAUGHT. I've said many times that if I were evil, I could be a very rich man.
Now, when I was a kid there was a family down the street with two very severely retarded children. The cause? Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. My guess is that gasoline caused very little if any retardation; lead poisoning would have been from paint (also phased out) rather than gasoline. There are just too many causes of mental retardation to blame the gasoline.
Also, lead isn't the only thing in gasoline that can damage brains. There is benzine, tolulene, all sorts of nasty stuff that will make you stupid.
-mcgrew
PS: You retards talk of Darwin when some dumbassed moron does something stupid, but I know a woman with 14 kids, 13 of them still alive. How many kids do YOU have? In the Darwin contest, assuming my two kids are the only ones I have (there could be a whole lot in Asia; also assuming that my two kids actually carry my genes) she's kicking my ass in the Darwin contest, and her IQ is average at best. -
Re:Pirated version?
Let me educate you on the difference between stealing and copyright infringement, son. Hey! Pay attention, boy, I'm talking to you. Now, we're talking about software but I'll make it simple and talk about a music CD instead.
Hey! Dammit didn't your mom give you that Strattera pill? Quit figiting!
If you go to Sam Goodie's and shoplift a CD, that's stealing. You have the CD and he no longer has the CD. It cost him the price of the CD to buy from the warehouse, and he's out that money. If you get caught, it's a misdemeanor with a small fine, perhaps a few hundred bucks (when my stupid crazy evil ex-wife got caught 30 years ago it cost me $100).
If you download that CD from Morpheus and have the "share downloaded files" box unchecked, you get lossily compressed files that don't sound as good, no cover art or liner notes or anything physical, and, well, in the US you didn't steal anything or even violate copyright. However, if you leave the box checked, you are not stealing (they still have the file) but you are violating copyright and the copyright holder has lost nothing (unlike the store you stole from) but they can sue you in civil court for several hundred thousand dollars.
That is the difference between stealing and copyright infringement. Copyright infringement's pamalties are thousands of times harsher, even though stealing is criminal and copyright infringement is civil.
The moral? Fucking go into the goddamned store and steal the motherfucking CD! That goes for your software, too. Just steal the damned thing, copyright infringement is far riskier!
-mcgrew -
I'm not human!
Heh...
This seems a little strange to me. Blogger worrying about whether or not I'll find out about the antics of their pet cat?
What am I missing here? Seems blogging is the antithesis of privacy.
-mcgrew
PS- GOD DAMN IT! I posted a comment to a story five stories down, went to get some dead cow at McHeartattack, came back and I'm STILL getting a slowdown cowboy. FUCK! This is absurd! -
I'm not human!
Heh...
This seems a little strange to me. Blogger worrying about whether or not I'll find out about the antics of their pet cat?
What am I missing here? Seems blogging is the antithesis of privacy.
-mcgrew
PS- GOD DAMN IT! I posted a comment to a story five stories down, went to get some dead cow at McHeartattack, came back and I'm STILL getting a slowdown cowboy. FUCK! This is absurd! -
Re:A Low Tech Load Balancer?
I do understand that many people might have bad experiences with the Comcast broadban,
Yeah, the broads have banned me, too. Bummer ain't it? =(
-mcgrew -
Slow news day?First you post the guy who created Pong saying games have gone downhill since Pong, and of course, he's opening a restaraunt with tabletop games. It's an incredibly stupid opinion, the Linked article is one I wrote a few years ago, Growing Up With Computers where I say
Some couple of years later I met my first privately owned computer: a "pong" game a friend had. Yawn. Yes, Pong was as mindlessly boring in 1978 as it is in 2005.
And now this nose thing. here is a New Scientist piece about the artificial nose (and it looks from TFA that it wasn't new then, they made an improvement to it) from April.
Are you guys trying to copy the clowns who do "first post" halfway down slashdot's page?
-mcgrew
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Re:In Defense of Bush (sorta)
I've been trying to respond to the Grandparent post, but apparently I'm a cowboy who can't post twice in the same hour ("It's been 1 hour, 2 minutes since you last successfully posted a comment"). So I'll (attempt to) put both in the same comment. One part agrees with you, one part does not. Here's the part I disagree with:
The machine is not broken, the Constitution remains to this day a framework that is viable, and valid.
I maintain that the Constitution IS broken, and is no longer viable, and that the Supreme Court has ruled that it doesn't even apply. An example is the absurd lengths of copyright. The Constitution gives Congress the right to "secure, for limited times", artistic and scientific work, legalizing copyright and patent laws. The court said in its opinion that "limited" meant whatever Congress says it means; a million years is a limited time.
They had to amend the Constitution to outlaw alcohol, so why could they outlaw other drugs without an amendment? If a woman has a right to remove a fetus, why can't she insert cocaine or rat poison? Where in the Constitution does it give Congress the right to restrict drug use?
I wrote a piece a few years ago titled Liberty? What liberty?, listing the bill of rights and how it has been rendered meaningless.
My 4th amendment rights have been violated twice this year, once on Memorial day! On the day we commemorate the deaths of soldiers who died defending our rights, a crazy ex-girlfriend (Chris) came by looking for my house, and scared some of the neighbors, who called the cops. The cops opened my garage and had a look around before knocking on my door; I pawned the crazy old bitch of on them, who took her home (her BF had locked her out which is why she came looking for me, wanting a place to sleep).
I was searched for drugs this summer. No arrest, no warrant, just pounced on and searched, because I'd given a woman a ride to what turned out to be a dope house (I sure can pick 'em, can't I?)
From the GP (this is responding to the guy you are responding to):
For all of the bashing the left does about Bush
I got some news for you, skippy - "the left" aren't the only ones bashing Bush. He has a lower approval rating than even Herbert Hover did after the economy collapsed. The only ones NOT bashing him are the droolers who are too damned stupid to realise what an incredibly awful, offal job Bush is doing by any measure.
-mcgrew
(linked text is titled "Outlaw the American Secret Police")
PS- my voting record in Presidential races:
Nixon (R)
Carter (D)
Reagan (R)
Reagan (R)
Bush (R)
Clinton (D)
Clinton (D)
Gore (D)
Badnarik (L)
I'm hardly a leftie. My take on government is that it's supposed to protect me from you, and provide basic infrastructure (roads, schools, etc). Since 40,000 people die every year on our highways, the terrorist I'm scared of is in an SUV. I want to see some of that Homeland Security money going to improve our roadways, instead of wasting it on Bush's stupid Iraq war.
