Alright, folks, let's get our asses in gear, for real.
Phase One: Get Weed.
We'll have some of the technical underlings go out for the bhag but they don't get to smoke it. They don't NEED it.
Phase Two: Get Cognitively Dissonant.
Hopefully the weed satisfies this but if it's schwag or gives us cottonmouth, I think we should drink lots of beer. And, some of the guys are feeling nervous about the results, so let's try to score some crystal molly, too. At any rate the point at this phase is to get as close to either a schizophrenic episode or a psychotic break as humanly possible, so we'll also need lots of Nine Inch Nails, Ritalin, and cough syrup, all of which we can also score from the techs. We'll have the janitors hold their heads in the toilet if they don't proffer.
Phase Three: THEORIZE
Okay, the main point is, everything our lives depends on is pure theory. Not the lives of everybody on Earth, just our lives, here, in grantland. If we don't show results we don't get more money, no more money means we have to take up jobs writing sci-fi. That's too much like WORK, dudes! It'll spoil everything! But they're talking about taking away our money anyway! So here we go, like, everything is SO not real, this isn't even happening! THIS SUCKS! But at least it isn't real. Hopefully everybody who's seen The Matrix (like, pschaw, EVERYbody) will believe in this, so they can hook us up with more green juice.
Phase Four: BABES
Somehow this results is us passing our genetic seed.
One big problem you'll have? Ridicule. All of it was done in the light of publicly ridiculing someone they didn't even have a realistic expectation of ever coming in contact with. They aren't members of his community. You can't blame the internet for everything, and one thing you can't blame it for ruining is a good time. Griefing aside, since the man's an officer and isn't into self-harm, there's nothing you can really legally do when people decide you're ridiculous. Otherwise half of the entire world of humor is at stake. Things done in a humoristic slant are immediately dismissable and absurd, and that's how it'll be thrown out of court.
Wow, yeah, hell let's just get stoned, come up with crazy halfbaked dreams and get grant monies! One million dollars, this guy's so fucking delusional he probably thinks he just got elected Shadow President by the Secret Chiefs of the Universe. Fucking MORON.
I'm reading the document, and I think some things are clear:
"Josephs is a police officer who abuses his position of authority"
"Josephs mistreats members of the public"
"Josephs is incompetent and unfit to be a police officer"
"Josephs has psychological problems"
"Josephs is a narcissist"
"Josephs bullies members of the public"
"Josephs is egotistical"
Even if they weren't true following the protest event that was publicised on YouTube, they are true now that he's filed the lawsuit.
Hopefully he's forced to actually present evidence of damages and not just to sit their weeping on the stand and crying about how his lack of dignity was publicised resulting in a lack of public respect for him.
If he were to emphasize the statement under Sec.IV.40, ("Damages... Josephs has received threats of physical harm") I'm sure the public would have to remind him that police officers sign onto a job that is not popular with the public, and that threats against their person for so much as taking the job are something to be weathered.
Sec.IV.41 notes that the defendant acted "callously" towards Josephs, and who knows -- in Canada, maybe there isn't really freedom of speech.
What's obvious to me, though, underneath all of this, is that Josephs intends to amass over a million dollars and probably to use it to boost a career in entertainment. That's what people usually do when internet publicity ruins their lives -- they take the internet up on the offer and try to make good of their own charicature.
At any rate, it's boring, I never heard of it before and I'm not likely to hear of it again, since it's Canadian, not America.
Is it just me or is slashdot being used as a battleground for geek opinion? Whenever there's news about some company, that same day, sometimes within a couple of hours, there's counter-news or propaganda that spin the situation or introduce some other closely related variable that seems intended to take advantage of the information the news dissipated. Is slashdot basically commercially compromised at this point?
Leftists will throw every excuse they can think of to dissuade people from pursuing this, because they derive their power from perpetuating scarcity and fragile earth crisis mongering.
Persuing grand projects of space travel do exactly that, they waste resources and impact our environment, and for what? To look at air? Last I knew, you could study atmospheres in detail from light years away just by looking at their light. I smell pork, and there's another wasteful thing no matter who's chucking it.
We haven't terraformed Mars because the exact way to get it done has not been predicted, yet.
You should grab any hard-sci fi anthology on terraforming and/or Mars and look into it. Some fairly serious scientists write some of these short stories and put a lot of truly scientific effort into it. One guy who works somewhere in the space-related fields wrote a story detailing how it would be more or less truly impossible to build Mars an atmosphere conducive to human life for reasons related to gravity.
I think we should all be seriously disillusioned about terraforming and all heavy space industry in general. If you'd like a fuller opinion on it, read my essay "Space Travel: Unfit for Humanity".:) http://eyenot.livejournal.com/1009497.html
bullshit. this mouse doesn't change "itself", as soon as i read the summary i knew what the model was, and this one is just slightly more accessible-looking than what i had in mind, which was a nasty machine-shop-prototype looking mouse that claimed ultimate 'adjustability' and so on, probably just the earlier version from the same company. this mouse looks nasty and freaked-out, too. and it doesn't adjust "itself". you have to adjust and prod at all this shit to get it into the dimensions you require. slashdot shouldn't be an advertising clearinghouse.
What the fuck is this article about? What the fuck did this even get written for? Or the Atlantic article it's about? Any of it? Who cares? Some people are stupid, they don't understand why rain falls from the sky -- look THAT up! People are so stupid they don't understand how the fuck babies are made from crying out loud, to most of them it's just the unfortunate side-effect of too much fucking! We know people are stupid, already. Most of the/. readers are intelligent people. They're "nerds", remember? But this shit isn't even fucking NEWS! Especially not here! GOD I felt so fucking stupid just READING this god damn horseshit.
So, during this time between October 1st and whenever CyberCom is finally staffed, seated, resolved, and working, there will be no effective "cyber defense" for the country. Though the Department of Homeland Security will have just completed operation "Cyber Storm III" (between Tuesday of this week - currently ongoing - and 3-4 days later) which is a simulated attack on our nation's "information superstructure", apparently we will be without a department that could take advantage of what that simulation teaches us. If history is of any value as a learning tool, we should take note that prior simulations have taxed our national defenses and presented strategic moments for our enemies to attack. If you'll remember, during the terrorist attacks of 9-11, our Air Force and other departments were undergoing an attack simulation which left us vulnerable in key areas for the most terrible thing that happened to all Americans since Key West got overdeveloped, blocking out the gorgeous view. It was also very similar to Pearl Harbor in the way in which the enemies executed their attack, and similar to the Trail of Tears in how many Americans died.
One day, about six months into the project, there'll be a slashdot story that they lost everything and can't bear to start over again. Instead, they will release it as a MineCraft expansion.
My guess is that they were inspired by the very recent news of large models of the starship enterprise being created by an amateur, impressed by his results (which he later lost, a whole six months of work) and decided it was a lucrative investment. All thanks to slashdot!
Oh shit is this about my RIGHTS, online? Oh hell let me read this shit... alright... yeah... uh-huh... okayyy... soooo Google's search engine was masquerading as a tool of censorship the whole time?... wait... noooo that's not it... alright... no it's just a measure of legal protection on their behalf.
WELL WTF... my rights weren't even involved.
Well at least/. helped me demonstrate my online right to freely click-through and waste my time on the internet! Thanks!
or fucking, because, most times, when fucking fuckers fuck, they can't read.
relevance: "OpenSolaris was simply a cluster-fuck for the community." "folks that are doing stuff with openSSO, and it's really fucking cool" "Just give me a hash table and a shitload of RAM and I'm happy." "they were lying, duplicitous shits three years ago" "but up at the top, they deeply, deeply don't give a shit." "I was really pissed off at Larry's rant" "old-fashioned operators from hell"
Maybe... they at first wanted to call it "FreeOffice" (!) but, because they're insufferable geeks, one of them had to say "oh, hey let's use the ancient Germanic for 'free' which is 'frank'" and another geek said "hey, better, since 'frank' is the originator of 'France' let's use the French word: libre" and the rest thought that that was a great idea, out of recursion.
Or... maybe these are some radical-minded liberals, who still to this day feel affronted by Bush's ideological attack on use of the word "French" as an insane attempt to slight France for failing to kow-tow. So, the first chance they have, first word-or-name-to-be-invented that comes along, they stick something French into it, for revenge.
Or... they are a bunch of rich, poppyheaded fucks, with their heads stuck up their asses, taking their product in a horrible and disastrous direction, out of the frying pan and into the fire, and because Ellison is a beefhearted, barbarous neckbeard who sails boats and flies airplanes and makes them jealous, they decided to try and show him up, show him who's the real $$$ goods, and pick a real expensive-sounding FRENCH name, for their pile of barely-keeping-up poo-pooh; also to overcompensate for the fact that they'll be going broke and will never be able to afford that trip to Paris ever again.
2. they know better than to reuse old materials forever;
3. their market is free enough that a private scrapper can end up with space-age materials if they are interested in purchasing the item.
In America, that shuttle would be getting disintigrated with live crew aboard and no private entity could ever expect to get their hands on something of potential interest like such expensive, "sensitive" former NASA equipment, even if they could pay for it.
Anyone who's taken college level writing has been instructed not to write like that. To "oh," go ahead and do so, is nothing more than the most limpwristed lampoon. I think it belongs on/. because lampoon is mostly enjoyed by working geeks and nerds.
Slashdot Mirror
This is all part of Google's genius "let's get hated" national/international market strategy.
All in parents:
Since when was the article about "if civilization failed" ? It was about "in prehistory", not "in the future". Convolution fail.
[Theoreticists' memo on the project]
Alright, folks, let's get our asses in gear, for real.
Phase One: Get Weed.
We'll have some of the technical underlings go out for the bhag but they don't get to smoke it. They don't NEED it.
Phase Two: Get Cognitively Dissonant.
Hopefully the weed satisfies this but if it's schwag or gives us cottonmouth, I think we should drink lots of beer. And, some of the guys are feeling nervous about the results, so let's try to score some crystal molly, too. At any rate the point at this phase is to get as close to either a schizophrenic episode or a psychotic break as humanly possible, so we'll also need lots of Nine Inch Nails, Ritalin, and cough syrup, all of which we can also score from the techs. We'll have the janitors hold their heads in the toilet if they don't proffer.
Phase Three: THEORIZE
Okay, the main point is, everything our lives depends on is pure theory. Not the lives of everybody on Earth, just our lives, here, in grantland. If we don't show results we don't get more money, no more money means we have to take up jobs writing sci-fi. That's too much like WORK, dudes! It'll spoil everything! But they're talking about taking away our money anyway! So here we go, like, everything is SO not real, this isn't even happening! THIS SUCKS! But at least it isn't real. Hopefully everybody who's seen The Matrix (like, pschaw, EVERYbody) will believe in this, so they can hook us up with more green juice.
Phase Four: BABES
Somehow this results is us passing our genetic seed.
What's so wrong with this? I think it's a great campaign strategy.
This is so stupid, why are we being forced to comment anonymously?
One big problem you'll have? Ridicule. All of it was done in the light of publicly ridiculing someone they didn't even have a realistic expectation of ever coming in contact with. They aren't members of his community. You can't blame the internet for everything, and one thing you can't blame it for ruining is a good time. Griefing aside, since the man's an officer and isn't into self-harm, there's nothing you can really legally do when people decide you're ridiculous. Otherwise half of the entire world of humor is at stake. Things done in a humoristic slant are immediately dismissable and absurd, and that's how it'll be thrown out of court.
hey don't fret -- is your prostate healthy? cheers!
my prostate is still healthy! go blahnabbernab on THAT!
Wow, yeah, hell let's just get stoned, come up with crazy halfbaked dreams and get grant monies! One million dollars, this guy's so fucking delusional he probably thinks he just got elected Shadow President by the Secret Chiefs of the Universe. Fucking MORON.
I am not a doctor or a lawyer.
I'm reading the document, and I think some things are clear:
"Josephs is a police officer who abuses his position of authority"
"Josephs mistreats members of the public"
"Josephs is incompetent and unfit to be a police officer"
"Josephs has psychological problems"
"Josephs is a narcissist"
"Josephs bullies members of the public"
"Josephs is egotistical"
Even if they weren't true following the protest event that was publicised on YouTube, they are true now that he's filed the lawsuit.
Hopefully he's forced to actually present evidence of damages and not just to sit their weeping on the stand and crying about how his lack of dignity was publicised resulting in a lack of public respect for him.
If he were to emphasize the statement under Sec.IV.40, ("Damages... Josephs has received threats of physical harm") I'm sure the public would have to remind him that police officers sign onto a job that is not popular with the public, and that threats against their person for so much as taking the job are something to be weathered.
Sec.IV.41 notes that the defendant acted "callously" towards Josephs, and who knows -- in Canada, maybe there isn't really freedom of speech.
What's obvious to me, though, underneath all of this, is that Josephs intends to amass over a million dollars and probably to use it to boost a career in entertainment. That's what people usually do when internet publicity ruins their lives -- they take the internet up on the offer and try to make good of their own charicature.
At any rate, it's boring, I never heard of it before and I'm not likely to hear of it again, since it's Canadian, not America.
There was news about this the year before last year. And according to somebody /else/, the estimated EOW date was off by over 4,000 years.
Is it just me or is slashdot being used as a battleground for geek opinion? Whenever there's news about some company, that same day, sometimes within a couple of hours, there's counter-news or propaganda that spin the situation or introduce some other closely related variable that seems intended to take advantage of the information the news dissipated. Is slashdot basically commercially compromised at this point?
Slashdot needs to get with the times and have something similar to a like/digg/whatever button.
Leftists will throw every excuse they can think of to dissuade people from pursuing this, because they derive their power from perpetuating scarcity and fragile earth crisis mongering.
Persuing grand projects of space travel do exactly that, they waste resources and impact our environment, and for what? To look at air? Last I knew, you could study atmospheres in detail from light years away just by looking at their light. I smell pork, and there's another wasteful thing no matter who's chucking it.
We haven't terraformed Mars because the exact way to get it done has not been predicted, yet.
You should grab any hard-sci fi anthology on terraforming and/or Mars and look into it. Some fairly serious scientists write some of these short stories and put a lot of truly scientific effort into it. One guy who works somewhere in the space-related fields wrote a story detailing how it would be more or less truly impossible to build Mars an atmosphere conducive to human life for reasons related to gravity.
I think we should all be seriously disillusioned about terraforming and all heavy space industry in general. If you'd like a fuller opinion on it, read my essay "Space Travel: Unfit for Humanity". :) http://eyenot.livejournal.com/1009497.html
Weather they thawed it threw or not, it heat lossy in the atmospheres.
bullshit. this mouse doesn't change "itself", as soon as i read the summary i knew what the model was, and this one is just slightly more accessible-looking than what i had in mind, which was a nasty machine-shop-prototype looking mouse that claimed ultimate 'adjustability' and so on, probably just the earlier version from the same company. this mouse looks nasty and freaked-out, too. and it doesn't adjust "itself". you have to adjust and prod at all this shit to get it into the dimensions you require. slashdot shouldn't be an advertising clearinghouse.
What the fuck is this article about? What the fuck did this even get written for? Or the Atlantic article it's about? Any of it? Who cares? Some people are stupid, they don't understand why rain falls from the sky -- look THAT up! People are so stupid they don't understand how the fuck babies are made from crying out loud, to most of them it's just the unfortunate side-effect of too much fucking! We know people are stupid, already. Most of the /. readers are intelligent people. They're "nerds", remember? But this shit isn't even fucking NEWS! Especially not here! GOD I felt so fucking stupid just READING this god damn horseshit.
So, during this time between October 1st and whenever CyberCom is finally staffed, seated, resolved, and working, there will be no effective "cyber defense" for the country. Though the Department of Homeland Security will have just completed operation "Cyber Storm III" (between Tuesday of this week - currently ongoing - and 3-4 days later) which is a simulated attack on our nation's "information superstructure", apparently we will be without a department that could take advantage of what that simulation teaches us. If history is of any value as a learning tool, we should take note that prior simulations have taxed our national defenses and presented strategic moments for our enemies to attack. If you'll remember, during the terrorist attacks of 9-11, our Air Force and other departments were undergoing an attack simulation which left us vulnerable in key areas for the most terrible thing that happened to all Americans since Key West got overdeveloped, blocking out the gorgeous view. It was also very similar to Pearl Harbor in the way in which the enemies executed their attack, and similar to the Trail of Tears in how many Americans died.
One day, about six months into the project, there'll be a slashdot story that they lost everything and can't bear to start over again. Instead, they will release it as a MineCraft expansion.
My guess is that they were inspired by the very recent news of large models of the starship enterprise being created by an amateur, impressed by his results (which he later lost, a whole six months of work) and decided it was a lucrative investment. All thanks to slashdot!
Oh shit is this about my RIGHTS, online? ... wait... noooo
Oh hell let me read this shit... alright...
yeah... uh-huh... okayyy... soooo Google's
search engine was masquerading as a tool of
censorship the whole time?
that's not it... alright... no it's just a
measure of legal protection on their behalf.
WELL WTF... my rights weren't even involved.
Well at least /. helped me demonstrate my
online right to freely click-through and
waste my time on the internet! Thanks!
or fucking, because, most times, when
fucking fuckers fuck, they can't read.
relevance:
"OpenSolaris was simply a cluster-fuck for the community."
"folks that are doing stuff with openSSO, and it's really fucking cool"
"Just give me a hash table and a shitload of RAM and I'm happy."
"they were lying, duplicitous shits three years ago"
"but up at the top, they deeply, deeply don't give a shit."
"I was really pissed off at Larry's rant"
"old-fashioned operators from hell"
Podcasts are for commuters, workers, breastfeeders,
fuckers, and other non-hands- or eyes-free people.
Maybe... they at first wanted to call it "FreeOffice" (!) but, because they're insufferable geeks, one of them had to say "oh, hey let's use the ancient Germanic for 'free' which is 'frank'" and another geek said "hey, better, since 'frank' is the originator of 'France' let's use the French word: libre" and the rest thought that that was a great idea, out of recursion.
Or... maybe these are some radical-minded liberals, who still to this day feel affronted by Bush's ideological attack on use of the word "French" as an insane attempt to slight France for failing to kow-tow. So, the first chance they have, first word-or-name-to-be-invented that comes along, they stick something French into it, for revenge.
Or... they are a bunch of rich, poppyheaded fucks, with their heads stuck up their asses, taking their product in a horrible and disastrous direction, out of the frying pan and into the fire, and because Ellison is a beefhearted, barbarous neckbeard who sails boats and flies airplanes and makes them jealous, they decided to try and show him up, show him who's the real $$$ goods, and pick a real expensive-sounding FRENCH name, for their pile of barely-keeping-up poo-pooh; also to overcompensate for the fact that they'll be going broke and will never be able to afford that trip to Paris ever again.
At least in Russia:
1. they know when to decomission;
2. they know better than to reuse old materials forever;
3. their market is free enough that a private scrapper can end up with space-age materials if they are interested in purchasing the item.
In America, that shuttle would be getting disintigrated with live crew aboard and no private entity could ever expect to get their hands on something of potential interest like such expensive, "sensitive" former NASA equipment, even if they could pay for it.
Anyone who's taken college level writing has been instructed not to write like that. /. because lampoon is mostly enjoyed by working geeks and nerds.
To "oh," go ahead and do so, is nothing more than the most limpwristed lampoon.
I think it belongs on