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Power Laws, Weblogs, and Your Given Name
gummint writes "After contemplating the blogsphere and pondering whether "diversity plus freedom of choice creates inequality", consider an old-media domain name: the one your parents gave you. How did they choose it? How many other persons have the same one? Get some facts, or a lot of facts. Or just comment anyway. The good news is that the extent of inequality can change massively over time: the popularity of the most popular given names has decreased dramatically since the Industrial Revolution."
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TASK :- To Shoot Yourself In The Foot .o .o: No such file or directory :After playing with the graphics for 3 weeks, the programming manager shoots you in the head. " >Shoot /foot
C:You shoot yourself in the foot.
C++:You accidentally create a dozen instances of yourself and shoot them all in the foot. Providing emergency medical care is impossible since you can't tell which are bitwise copies and which are just pointing at others and saying, "That's me over there."
FORTRAN:You shoot yourself in each toe, iteratively, until you run out of toes, then you read in the next foot and repeat. If you run out of bullets, you continue anyway because you have no exception handling ability.
Cobol:USE HANDGUN.COLT(45), AIM AT LEG.FOOT, THEN WITH ARM.HAND.FINGER ON HANDGUN.COLT(TRIGGER) PERFORM.SQUEEZE RETURN HANDGUN.COLT(45) TO HIP.HOLSTER.
LISP:You shoot yourself in the appendage which holds the gun with
which you shoot yourself in the appendage which holds the gun with
which you shoot yourself in the appendage which holds the gun with
which you shoot yourself in the appendage which holds the gun with
which you shoot yourself in the appendage which holds the gun with
which you shoot yourself in the appendage which holds...
Basic (interpreted):You shoot yourself in the foot with a water pistol until your foot is waterlogged and rots off.
Basic (compiled)
You shoot yourself in the foot with a BB using a SCUD missile launcher.
FORTH:Foot in yourself shoot.
APL:You shoot yourself in the foot, then spend all day figuring out how to do it in fewer characters.
Pascal:The compiler won't let you shoot yourself in the foot.
SNOBOL:If you succeed, shoot yourself in the left foot. If you fail, shoot yourself in the right foot.
Concurrent Euclid:You shoot yourself in somebody else's foot.
HyperTalk:Put the first bullet of the gun into the foot left of leg of you. Answer the result.
Motif:You spend days writing a UIL description of your foot, the trajectory, the bullet, and the intricate scrollwork on the ivory handles of the gun. When you finally get around to pulling the trigger, the gun jams.
Unix
% ls
foot.c foot.h foot.o toe.c toe.o
% rm *
rm:
% ls
%
XBase:Shooting yourself is no problem. If you want to shoot yourself in the foot, you'll have to use Clipper.
Paradox:Not only can you shoot yourself in the foot, your users can, too.
Revelation:You'll be able to shoot yourself in the foot just as soon as you figure out what all these bullets are for.
Visual Basic
You'll really only appear to have shot yourself in the foot, but you'll have had so much fun doing it that you won't care.
Prolog:You tell your program that you want to be shot in the foot. The program figures out how to do it, but the syntax doesn't permit it to explain it to you.
370 JCL:You send your foot down to MIS and include a 400-page document explaining exactly how you want it to be shot. Three years later, your foot comes back deep-fried.
Apple:We'll let you shoot yourself, but it'll cost you a bundle.
IBM:You insert a clip into the gun, wait half an hour, and it goes off in random directions. If a bullet hits your foot, you're lucky.
Microsoft:Object "Foot" will be included in the next release. You can upgrade for $500.
Cray:I knew you were going to shoot yourself in the foot.
Hewlett-Packard:You can use this machine-gun to shoot yourself in the foot, but the firing pin is broken.
NeXT:We don't sell guns anymore, just ammunition.
Sun:Just as soon as Solaris gets here, you can shoot yourself anywhere you want.
Ada:After correctly packing your foot, you attempt to concurrently load the gun, pull the trigger, scream, and shoot yourself in the foot. When you try,however, you discover you can't because your foot is of the wrong type.
Access:You try to point the gun at your foot, but it shoots holes in all your Borland distribution diskettes instead.
Assembler:You try to shoot yourself in the foot, only to discover you must first invent the gun, the bullet, the trigger, and your foot.
Modula2:After realizing that you can't actually accomplish anything in this language, you shoot yourself in the head.
csh:After searching the manual until your foot falls asleep, you shoot the computer and switch to C.
dBase:You buy a gun. Bullets are only available from another company and are promised to work so you buy them. Then you find out that the next version of the gun is the one that is scheduled to actually shoot bullets.
PL/1:After consuming all system resources including bullets, the data processing department doubles its size, acquires 2 new mainframes and drops the original on your foot.
Smalltalk, Actor, et al
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HTML:
<a target="http://body/lower-half/leg/foot.appendage
here</a>
- tv's Spatch
Java:The gun fires just fine, but your foot can't figure out what the bullets are and ignores them.
MOO:You ask a wizard for a pair of hands. After lovingly handcrafting the gun and each bullet, you tell everyone that you've shot yourself in the foot.
Smalltalk:You daydream repeatedly about shooting yourself in the foot.
-Petréa Mitchell
FTP
% ftp lower-body.me.org
ftp> cd
ftp> put bullets
- Jim Gould
DCL:You manage to shoot yourself in the foot, but while doing so you also shoot yourself in the arm, stomach, and leg, plus you shoot yourbest friend in the chest, the neighbour's dog and your car. A month later you're not able to understand your program anymore when you read the source.
- Originator unknown
Windows95: d:\setup
And lest we forget our roots:
>shoot self in foot
I don't see any self here.
>shoot me in foot
There is no you in the foot.
>shoot foot
I don't know which foot you're talking about.
>shoot left foot
You don't have the gun.
>get gun
You take the gun.
You're lantern just went out.
You are attacked by grues.
* * * YOU HAVE DIED * * *
Cited: Defective Coaster
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The ONLY Way, Truth and Life!
liberty, equality, fraternity.
well great, fraternity is always nice (course women really aren't part of that, and it aint by accident). but if you know anything, you've known from the get go that liberty is the root of inequality. in the USA people typically equate equality to the equality of opportunity (like mortgage lending, or head football coaching gigs for blacks and other minorities). over in france, they seem to prefer a more absolute version of equality, but that kind of equality comes solely at the expense of freedom!
why this long rant, when this stuff is about blogging, not about france???
i can't answer that either, but if you're upset that nobody reads your blog, maybe you're just having alot of gallic thoughts that day, poor you.
"You never want a serious crisis to go to waste." - Rahm Emanuel
They sure seem to be pussies lately.. I dont know why they cant just sit back and let the Brits and the Americans protect them like always..
They could at least stay out of the way.
I guess they would prefer to wait until Saddam has nuclear weapons, so they could immediately surrender.
Oh, and french girls rock.. They arent really that great, but they are easy...
Protect them from what? They didn't have planes flown into their buildings, fuckwad.
Fuckez-vous offez!
tu parles comme to as un coc dans ton bouche. YOu want to make a point, ENGLISH MUTHAFUCKA! DO YOU SPEAK IT?
Say it frenche! Chowdah!