You get an overview of ALL stuff from ALL feeds, or just from invididual categories/feeds you selected (which acts recursively, which is awesome).
Google Reader is a JOKE.
Plus, it's Google, so wtf is wrong with people anyway:P Isn't it enough they have web analytics on every site of the planet, and that that half of the feeds go through feedburner on top of that? Why not at least read the other half of the feeds in peace... ? I don't even read any feeds that are controversial in the slightest, it's mostly webdev stuff, but still, I have principles:/
May I ask why you were disappointed? I.e. what did you expect, what did you get instead?
I use it all the time, it's like email for websites. Thank fuck just about anyone who writes tutorials or articles they really care about uses a blogging system which outputs RSS. When I see a good site I don't bookmark it to revisit occasionally, I subscribe to the RSS feed. I still end up visiting those sites to read the articles as they're actually supposed to look, but at least I don't have to "do the rounds" anymore.
I also intend to use it for my CMS to import stuff I'm posting elsewhere to the web as text/links. Then all that can be distributed to Facebook or whatever via RSS, and more importantly is available with a big fat orange icon on the site itself.
Though I just wish there were more/better RSS reader client thingies. I use http://www.rssowl.org/, and I'm super happy other than with the inbuilt browser, the feeling it could be faster and that development has stopped/slowed down. I'm loving the features, you can do so much with that thing, and categorize feeds so you can keep track of dozens and hundreds easily.
Can anyone recommend good newsfeed readers? I'm sure they're out there, I just don't know 'em..
Also, what's the easiest way to get going to code a cross-platform Qt application? I'd rather start making my own crappy RSS client, instead of just hoping they won't go away. Fuck if anyone uses it, RSS for life!:D
The one wearing the uniform. Firefighter is a job.
I love the fact that you automatically assume "wearing the uniform = having gone through the training and not being an impostor" ^^
But sure, I get your point. "Firefighter" is a job, not something one does. Same for cops etc. Then simply replace "being a firefighter" with "fighting fires". Then it becomes a rhetorical question: Who fights fire... those who fight fire, or those who have a piece of paper in hand, saying "I fight fires"?
It all boils down to symbols and things, that authority is supposed to be earned by performance, and that titles can be but farts in the wind. And no, I didn't mean to imply "anonymous are the new cops now", just well done for them on this one.
With just two parties that are more-or-less equal in resources and power, the manipulation should cancel out.
What about the stuff both parties agree on, e.g. that discourse should to remain within the boundaries of repubmocracy? It's just "good cop, bad cop", with the republicans being the bad cop for democrat voters, and the democrats being the bad cop for republican voters. When the management teams switch, like those tag teams in WWF, everybody is relieved/angry for a while.
What should worry you is how easily it got accepted that third (or fourth, fifth..) parties can never have a serious stab at anything. As long as this is true, you're fucked, and stuck between two groups that sliced up the pie, which is you, between them, while covering each other's backs -- and most importantly the rich on their ongoing, frenetic raid.
This isn't rocket science, it's not new, it's just not polite/appropriate conversation. At any rate, to suggest that competition ensures fairness is kind of naive... not everything called that way is actual competition, and not even actual competition magically makes everything fine.
News agencies today are struggling under the lack of actual news-worthy content and feel the need to exploit ever more dubiously "newsworthy" events to fake the appearance of relevance.
Hmm, maybe they could, I dunno, engage in actual journalism or something, instead of echoing press releases? That might help.
Speak for yourself, I'm still in complete denial. For starters, I cannot accept that clouds, the pretty, free things without a greedy or evil thought in their whole body, should lend their name to something as banal as this. That's just arrogant and silly.
Not if you are in a country that has wise laws to protect people
How so? How do you control what comes out of the mouths or keyboards of people?
Less free speech and more protection from abuse could have saved this girl
And save her from what? From doing something stupid to make a point? I know that sounds fucking callous, and I don't mean to say it was "her fault", but a thicker skin, some perspective, more healthy fun time with real friends, might have ALSO helped her, and wouldn't require whatever instrumentation you're dreaming of that would be able to restrict speech so that nobody can be ever hurt again.
Besides, you just drag her up -- just like you brought up rape -- to trump up the actual fucking topic. You're comparing a lone girl being abused by two guys, who claimed they were more, and made some stuff public, to one loner barking at a fucking celebrity, with fans and whatnot. Not because it makes any sense, but as a triumphant last resort. Don't you fucking talk about decency.
You're the one to talk? "statistically, you don't even have a passport" = that's the dumbest thing I read all day.
And comparing this story with the suicide of Megan Meier isn't just fucking stupid, it's also rather fucked up. You're using her for shock value, even though it's apples and oranges, just because you can't argue for shit. Fucking shame on you.
I didn't say Daley incited them, did I? He was whining about that tweet, making "idiots" out of it (or maybe he just didn't feel like retweeting negative comments by people who weren't as plainly "evil", going for the low hanging fruit), and then either didn't notice, didn't care, or approved of the mob reaction. It's not like he said "hey people, cut it out", or accepted the apology, etc. How is he not a prick, too?
I don't understand why you give Reece so much benefit of the doubt and understanding, yet give none for Tom.
Yeah, that much is obvious.
Keep in mind that Riley_69/Reece could have easily deleted his account, or just not read and responded to all the backlash, y'know, like what you proposed Tom Daley do.
One is an athlete with fans, the other is "a 17 year old who looks like he is 12" (and obviously has issues). One is now drowning in messages of support, the other got arrested. To me it's like kicking "back" at a little dog that is barking loudly at you. So I hope the poor sod will get help, not just punishment.
Not bothering with your strawmen because frankly, lol. Try something less predictable at least.
Either of us could also have been born somewhere in the middle east and just be collateral damage.
Why not have a moment of silence for the gangsters that run this stuff? From where I'm sitting, both the military-industrial complex and terrorists are sides of the same coin, they both fuck the normal people under their control over, they both use the other to justify their existence, and they both nilly-willy kill "the others".
So unless you hold a moment of silence for the tens and hundreds of thousands dead people in the middle east, fuck any and all of that. Yes, they murder their "own", that doesn't mean "we" get to murder them on top of that, so Unless the ghost of a victim of that bombing looks me in the eye and says THEY want that, I'm fucking singing at the top of my lungs whenever I'm ordererd to stare at my shoes for the greater unity of doublethink. And even then, I'd prolly just think "bah, even the afterlife didn't open their eyes one fucking bit, what a shitty ghost".
So much for me being respectful towards people on behalf of others. Between me and those victims, it's different. I don't wish anyone harm, or to lose anyone that way, or any way.
But between me and the War On Terror(tm) freak show speaking FOR those victims, it's hissing and scratching all the way to the heat death of the universe. This crap is so loaded with propaganda and BS, I'm flat out refusing. I mean, if millions of people are having a sad for people they don't even know, it hardly matters that I'm having a shrug.
And why should I post AC? I regret nothing. Either De-Nazification will come, then I'll be one laughing last -- or it doesn't come, and then I couldn't give two fucks about how I exactly fit in into Nazi society. And no, I'm not being polemic, I "say" this with a straight face and complete, yet slightly cold, calm. I'm buying none of it, and fuck those who are selling.
The teets of a nobdy, who likely has no followers, constitutes bullying? 140 character messages that can be removed from your feeble sight by clicking "block this person"? Are you fucking serious?
Have you EVER been mobbed/bullied? It's *very* hard for one person to do it, unless they're able to physically intimidate the other, which is hardly the case here. However, it becomes very easy when several people are involved, each making their own little hits, then hiding in the brushwork/group. Do that to someone who is obviously having issues already, and you basically don't get to complain when it just gets worse. When that person "asked for it", that's perfect, then you get the situation we have now, where the little assclowns can have their pie (being a fucking mob) and eat it (feeling morally superior), too.
Also, though I know that doesn't fit into everybodies' attention span -- I'm not defending the person with psychological problems saying what he said, I'm attacking the athlete and his fans, basically. Well, indirectly, I doubt they fucking read slashdot haha.
And no, you cannot analyze a person by just reading a list of their transgressions. That's for family, friends, and social workers. People who *actually* put in the effort so they get to run their fucking yap, as opposed to all these coat-tail riders.
What do you think, how much advertisement money would flow if nobody was watching? And what is the difference between someone who does it for money in public, and someone who does the exact same thing for physical and/or mental fitness?
They aren't contestants in Big Brother, you muppet, they're athletes
No, they're professional athletes. They get payed to destroy their joints and whatnot to direct the attention of mindless drones, such as your lovely self, towards those little colourful stickers that are plastered all over them, their equipment, and the location they're in. A small fraction of the money that is utterly drained from the receptacles of the stream of neverending struggles (you) goes to good causes though, so it's all good.
Bullshit. Trolling is playing games, and saying stuff you don't actually mean. Recent complete dilution of that word, and using it to mean "bad", nonwithstanding. Kthxbye.
Tom retweeted the message, meaning he was just conveying to others what this little shithole said. What's wrong with that? Why are people allowed to insult others without any pushback, as long as the person their insulting is famous?
Why are people allowed to take (the clue is in the word... for more in-depth information, read Marc Aurel or something like that haha) offense?
I'm not famous, and any and all insults you could throw my way I couldn't give a fuck about. Being the loudmouth I am, I certainly received my share, on slashdot and otherwise. Lies or (credible!) threats may be different, depending on severity etc, but other than that, there is standing up to a bully, and there is being a bully in turn, towards a poor little fucker with issues, as if it would undo either loss.
And don't even get me started on herds. Yes, the athlete was a kid, too, probably so were his fans. But the authorities by definition kind of aren't.
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Check out, and take time to explore, http://www.rssowl.org/
You get an overview of ALL stuff from ALL feeds, or just from invididual categories/feeds you selected (which acts recursively, which is awesome).
Google Reader is a JOKE.
Plus, it's Google, so wtf is wrong with people anyway :P Isn't it enough they have web analytics on every site of the planet, and that that half of the feeds go through feedburner on top of that? Why not at least read the other half of the feeds in peace... ? I don't even read any feeds that are controversial in the slightest, it's mostly webdev stuff, but still, I have principles :/
May I ask why you were disappointed? I.e. what did you expect, what did you get instead?
I use it all the time, it's like email for websites. Thank fuck just about anyone who writes tutorials or articles they really care about uses a blogging system which outputs RSS. When I see a good site I don't bookmark it to revisit occasionally, I subscribe to the RSS feed. I still end up visiting those sites to read the articles as they're actually supposed to look, but at least I don't have to "do the rounds" anymore.
I also intend to use it for my CMS to import stuff I'm posting elsewhere to the web as text/links. Then all that can be distributed to Facebook or whatever via RSS, and more importantly is available with a big fat orange icon on the site itself.
Though I just wish there were more/better RSS reader client thingies. I use http://www.rssowl.org/, and I'm super happy other than with the inbuilt browser, the feeling it could be faster and that development has stopped/slowed down. I'm loving the features, you can do so much with that thing, and categorize feeds so you can keep track of dozens and hundreds easily.
Can anyone recommend good newsfeed readers? I'm sure they're out there, I just don't know 'em..
Also, what's the easiest way to get going to code a cross-platform Qt application? I'd rather start making my own crappy RSS client, instead of just hoping they won't go away. Fuck if anyone uses it, RSS for life! :D
C. Passively-aggressively mumbling instead of bringing the point you think you might have.
I love the fact that you automatically assume "wearing the uniform = having gone through the training and not being an impostor" ^^
But sure, I get your point. "Firefighter" is a job, not something one does. Same for cops etc. Then simply replace "being a firefighter" with "fighting fires". Then it becomes a rhetorical question: Who fights fire... those who fight fire, or those who have a piece of paper in hand, saying "I fight fires"?
It all boils down to symbols and things, that authority is supposed to be earned by performance, and that titles can be but farts in the wind. And no, I didn't mean to imply "anonymous are the new cops now", just well done for them on this one.
who is a firefighter? anyone who fights fire, or anyone wearing the uniform?
?SYNTAX ERROR
What about the stuff both parties agree on, e.g. that discourse should to remain within the boundaries of repubmocracy? It's just "good cop, bad cop", with the republicans being the bad cop for democrat voters, and the democrats being the bad cop for republican voters. When the management teams switch, like those tag teams in WWF, everybody is relieved/angry for a while.
What should worry you is how easily it got accepted that third (or fourth, fifth..) parties can never have a serious stab at anything. As long as this is true, you're fucked, and stuck between two groups that sliced up the pie, which is you, between them, while covering each other's backs -- and most importantly the rich on their ongoing, frenetic raid.
This isn't rocket science, it's not new, it's just not polite/appropriate conversation. At any rate, to suggest that competition ensures fairness is kind of naive... not everything called that way is actual competition, and not even actual competition magically makes everything fine.
Yes, a thousand times yes. "Freedom of the press is restricted to those owning a printing press."
Hmm, maybe they could, I dunno, engage in actual journalism or something, instead of echoing press releases? That might help.
That makes zero sense.. and judging by the randomness of your rant I'm pretty sure that deep inside you know that, too.
I know right? I wish I could hug em.
Nah, I'd rather just plain think. It's quite good, try it sometimes.
here's actually short: "Samsung can't and likely doesn't expect a fair trial."
More time for the main event, advertising. It does make perfect sense, it may just be ahead of the time.
Speak for yourself, I'm still in complete denial. For starters, I cannot accept that clouds, the pretty, free things without a greedy or evil thought in their whole body, should lend their name to something as banal as this. That's just arrogant and silly.
How so? How do you control what comes out of the mouths or keyboards of people?
And save her from what? From doing something stupid to make a point? I know that sounds fucking callous, and I don't mean to say it was "her fault", but a thicker skin, some perspective, more healthy fun time with real friends, might have ALSO helped her, and wouldn't require whatever instrumentation you're dreaming of that would be able to restrict speech so that nobody can be ever hurt again.
Besides, you just drag her up -- just like you brought up rape -- to trump up the actual fucking topic. You're comparing a lone girl being abused by two guys, who claimed they were more, and made some stuff public, to one loner barking at a fucking celebrity, with fans and whatnot. Not because it makes any sense, but as a triumphant last resort. Don't you fucking talk about decency.
You're the one to talk? "statistically, you don't even have a passport" = that's the dumbest thing I read all day.
And comparing this story with the suicide of Megan Meier isn't just fucking stupid, it's also rather fucked up. You're using her for shock value, even though it's apples and oranges, just because you can't argue for shit. Fucking shame on you.
I didn't say Daley incited them, did I? He was whining about that tweet, making "idiots" out of it (or maybe he just didn't feel like retweeting negative comments by people who weren't as plainly "evil", going for the low hanging fruit), and then either didn't notice, didn't care, or approved of the mob reaction. It's not like he said "hey people, cut it out", or accepted the apology, etc. How is he not a prick, too?
Yeah, that much is obvious.
One is an athlete with fans, the other is "a 17 year old who looks like he is 12" (and obviously has issues). One is now drowning in messages of support, the other got arrested. To me it's like kicking "back" at a little dog that is barking loudly at you. So I hope the poor sod will get help, not just punishment.
Not bothering with your strawmen because frankly, lol. Try something less predictable at least.
Either of us could also have been born somewhere in the middle east and just be collateral damage.
Why not have a moment of silence for the gangsters that run this stuff? From where I'm sitting, both the military-industrial complex and terrorists are sides of the same coin, they both fuck the normal people under their control over, they both use the other to justify their existence, and they both nilly-willy kill "the others".
So unless you hold a moment of silence for the tens and hundreds of thousands dead people in the middle east, fuck any and all of that. Yes, they murder their "own", that doesn't mean "we" get to murder them on top of that, so Unless the ghost of a victim of that bombing looks me in the eye and says THEY want that, I'm fucking singing at the top of my lungs whenever I'm ordererd to stare at my shoes for the greater unity of doublethink. And even then, I'd prolly just think "bah, even the afterlife didn't open their eyes one fucking bit, what a shitty ghost".
So much for me being respectful towards people on behalf of others. Between me and those victims, it's different. I don't wish anyone harm, or to lose anyone that way, or any way.
But between me and the War On Terror(tm) freak show speaking FOR those victims, it's hissing and scratching all the way to the heat death of the universe. This crap is so loaded with propaganda and BS, I'm flat out refusing. I mean, if millions of people are having a sad for people they don't even know, it hardly matters that I'm having a shrug.
And why should I post AC? I regret nothing. Either De-Nazification will come, then I'll be one laughing last -- or it doesn't come, and then I couldn't give two fucks about how I exactly fit in into Nazi society. And no, I'm not being polemic, I "say" this with a straight face and complete, yet slightly cold, calm. I'm buying none of it, and fuck those who are selling.
"The teets of a nobdy"
Errr. I meant "the tits of nobby", obviously. Gah.
The teets of a nobdy, who likely has no followers, constitutes bullying? 140 character messages that can be removed from your feeble sight by clicking "block this person"? Are you fucking serious?
Have you EVER been mobbed/bullied? It's *very* hard for one person to do it, unless they're able to physically intimidate the other, which is hardly the case here. However, it becomes very easy when several people are involved, each making their own little hits, then hiding in the brushwork/group. Do that to someone who is obviously having issues already, and you basically don't get to complain when it just gets worse. When that person "asked for it", that's perfect, then you get the situation we have now, where the little assclowns can have their pie (being a fucking mob) and eat it (feeling morally superior), too.
Also, though I know that doesn't fit into everybodies' attention span -- I'm not defending the person with psychological problems saying what he said, I'm attacking the athlete and his fans, basically. Well, indirectly, I doubt they fucking read slashdot haha.
And no, you cannot analyze a person by just reading a list of their transgressions. That's for family, friends, and social workers. People who *actually* put in the effort so they get to run their fucking yap, as opposed to all these coat-tail riders.
I think you're projecting, brainiac.
What do you think, how much advertisement money would flow if nobody was watching? And what is the difference between someone who does it for money in public, and someone who does the exact same thing for physical and/or mental fitness?
No, they're professional athletes. They get payed to destroy their joints and whatnot to direct the attention of mindless drones, such as your lovely self, towards those little colourful stickers that are plastered all over them, their equipment, and the location they're in. A small fraction of the money that is utterly drained from the receptacles of the stream of neverending struggles (you) goes to good causes though, so it's all good.
Bullshit. Trolling is playing games, and saying stuff you don't actually mean. Recent complete dilution of that word, and using it to mean "bad", nonwithstanding. Kthxbye.
Why are people allowed to take (the clue is in the word... for more in-depth information, read Marc Aurel or something like that haha) offense?
I'm not famous, and any and all insults you could throw my way I couldn't give a fuck about. Being the loudmouth I am, I certainly received my share, on slashdot and otherwise. Lies or (credible!) threats may be different, depending on severity etc, but other than that, there is standing up to a bully, and there is being a bully in turn, towards a poor little fucker with issues, as if it would undo either loss.
And don't even get me started on herds. Yes, the athlete was a kid, too, probably so were his fans. But the authorities by definition kind of aren't.
Actually, being a professional athlete he currently IS working in a circus. The most lame kind there is, but still a circus.