I love the comparison between Glen Beck and the character Lewis Prothero from V for Vendetta!
Watching Prothero's news casts in the movies are eerily similar to Glen Beck's show. The use of strong emotional speeches to invoke fear within their viewers to cause blind acceptance is crucial to their success. The fear they cause stops people from questioning authority:(
***Benjamin Franklin was often quoted as saying "it is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority."***
The amount of IT knowledge it takes to get a job in most help desk positions is minimal.
Most companies cycle through so many people frustrated with their unrewarding careers that the management is happy as long as the first tier can clear browser cache. Hell, they're happy if someone is answering the phone in a friendly manner... all of the troubleshooting steps these days are put into "Knowledge Bases" in which their 'trained' technicians follow the step by step procedures to try and fix the issue.
The REAL Tech support isn't reached until the 2nd or 3rd level normally... and still at that point some of the idiots sneak through the filters and make it into the upper tiers
It was a martian. You see about a billion years ago, the Martian civilization discovered the secret of consiousness. Eventually the robots they created displaced them, and then when the planet's resources were depleted, they left for the stars leaving behind some curators. These curators are not really consious, their robotic creators ensured this so that they would be reliable in their task of preserving their martian heritage, but sometimes they do act in ways that are, almost uncannily lifelike.
This was the case here. The Martian curator bots find the rovers interesting, or rather, they find their controllers interesting. They periodically dust the solar panels so that they will be able to keep roving. They are curious as to what they are doing, maybe even appreciative that someone has visited to appreciate what they have devoted the past eon to preserving. For them, watching us look is most gratifying. They really ache to communicate with us and show us all the Martian history in their underground vaults, but because of their programming to remain inconspicuous, they can't. Still, they are helpful when they can be and not give themselves away.
But how many guys fit that description?
The only reason I know I don't fit it is I'm not a dad.:-) Maybe your girlfriend is pregnant and this is her way of letting you know!
"Also PLEASE, PLEASE do not post this URL directly to news aggregation websites like Digg, Reddit, and StumbleUpon."
We're not like them!!! We're BETTER!!!
"but I digress"
^^one of the most overused expressions. I understand that you are going off-topic while you are doing it. I do NOT need to be told something that I already know.
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I love the comparison between Glen Beck and the character Lewis Prothero from V for Vendetta!
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Watching Prothero's news casts in the movies are eerily similar to Glen Beck's show. The use of strong emotional speeches to invoke fear within their viewers to cause blind acceptance is crucial to their success. The fear they cause stops people from questioning authority
***Benjamin Franklin was often quoted as saying "it is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority."***
Mod parent up.
The amount of IT knowledge it takes to get a job in most help desk positions is minimal. Most companies cycle through so many people frustrated with their unrewarding careers that the management is happy as long as the first tier can clear browser cache. Hell, they're happy if someone is answering the phone in a friendly manner... all of the troubleshooting steps these days are put into "Knowledge Bases" in which their 'trained' technicians follow the step by step procedures to try and fix the issue. The REAL Tech support isn't reached until the 2nd or 3rd level normally... and still at that point some of the idiots sneak through the filters and make it into the upper tiers
It was a martian. You see about a billion years ago, the Martian civilization discovered the secret of consiousness. Eventually the robots they created displaced them, and then when the planet's resources were depleted, they left for the stars leaving behind some curators. These curators are not really consious, their robotic creators ensured this so that they would be reliable in their task of preserving their martian heritage, but sometimes they do act in ways that are, almost uncannily lifelike.
This was the case here. The Martian curator bots find the rovers interesting, or rather, they find their controllers interesting. They periodically dust the solar panels so that they will be able to keep roving. They are curious as to what they are doing, maybe even appreciative that someone has visited to appreciate what they have devoted the past eon to preserving. For them, watching us look is most gratifying. They really ache to communicate with us and show us all the Martian history in their underground vaults, but because of their programming to remain inconspicuous, they can't. Still, they are helpful when they can be and not give themselves away.
+1 Awesome
I'm somewhat certain you didn't.
by James Alan Gardner. I've not read his other books so I cannot suggest them.
Should be made standard into the apps if it does all that it claims.
WTF? 1024x768? are we still in 1998? oh wait that's just you. Welcome to 2008.
huh? hack my router? i'm thinking you were looking for 127.0.0.1
Old programmers don't want to learn new things -- trust the tried and true.
Young bucks want to be on the cutting edge to get the jobs that the old people already have.
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Oh, and the people see the benefit in the other countries more than those in the U.S.? Probably not, we're just lazy American's though.
... or turning you into a superhero.
"Also PLEASE, PLEASE do not post this URL directly to news aggregation websites like Digg, Reddit, and StumbleUpon." We're not like them!!! We're BETTER!!!
lol @ the WoW comment +1 funny
... feel like I don't need to read slashdot but once a week. If they are going to have the same damn stories every day!
HEADSHOT!
"but I digress" ^^one of the most overused expressions. I understand that you are going off-topic while you are doing it. I do NOT need to be told something that I already know.
So since they can't sell vista they shall force it upon us. Time to burn stacks of Ubuntu Live CD's! GOGO!
not sure if its been asked yet, so here it goes: Can i SSH into it?
Hey, where is a country that is actually free these days without censorship?
i like trees better
the day after patch-tuesday for windows
rawr
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