On a serious note, I'd heard so much about Compiz being a "rip off of Vista Aero" that I was quite disappointed to finally get Vista at work and not have the wobbly windows, funky rotating cube of desktops, exposé clone etc.:/
Ah well, at least I get to use the superior solution at home.:) Now to get Trackmania Nations working under Wine... >.<
I can't really imagine a practical use for this (a lightning rod seems like a much cheaper solution) but it's pretty nifty science.
Electron beam weapons. Don't use it to get lightning *from* a cloud, use it to send lightning *to* your target. Think a taser with a laser tether instead of cords.
(In the olden days, sometimes it was a loose SATA cable - but the newer ones with latches have rectified that. Who the fuck designed the SATA plug? It's a travesty!)
The same guy who designed the power adapter connector thingy on my Sony Ericsson W880i phone. I swore after my last phone's power connector died and I stopped being able to charge it that I'd never get another Ericsson... then the new model seduced me with its shiny slimness. And now, a month after the warranty runs out, the charger's already getting finicky. Dammit!
There is such a thing as a "Web Designer" but calling a Front-End Dev a "Web Designer" is pejorative. It implies typical software developer usability-blindness.
Not at all. The back end has to be functional, efficient, and secure. The front end has the much harder task of being "nice to use". This is a design issue, not an implementation one, except where implementation affects the user experience, and hence "web designer" is the appropriate term.
If anything, I'd say you have it backwards here. A front-end dev is responsible for the javascript and the interface with the back end, but the web designer is the guy who makes the website not suck.
So wait... you're saying that email is written spoken words rather than written words that may be spoken? And that by that logic, slander is the appropriate term?
For a while there gay culture was booming (South Park even did that metro-sexual episode).
Um... metro isn't gay. Metro is those guys who had "I wish I was queer so I could get chicks" on permanent repeat throughout their teens and honestly believe that pretending to be gay will get them some pussy. Hell, for a while they were right...
I don't know about black people, but the history of beauty standards in western europe show that the attraction is about "I don't have to work for a living".
Damn, I never thought of it like that but now you mention it, that makes a lot of sense...
I missed the part where the President got the power to fire executives of private companies.
He doesn't. He just gets the power to bail them out with billions of taxpayer dollars. And he has the choice whether or not to do that, and he (quite rightly, IMO) believes that high-level execs who justify their exorbitant salaries based on the profits of the company as a whole should not be paid those exorbitant salaries (out of said taxpayer dollars) in the face of their recent abject failure.
Here's an experiment for you - find some random object/picture and stare at it while jacking off. Do that enough times, and you'll start to get horny when you see the object. It's a conditioned response involving brain chemistry and hormones. See also: Pavlov.
Here's an experiment for you - try doing exactly what I said before. Go watch gay porn and see if it excites you. I'm pretty sure it won't. Given that people have (unsuccessfully) tried all sorts of things from electro-shock therapy to hypnosis to 'cure' homosexuality, I'd be very surprised if simple classical conditioning is able to change sexual orientation.
Again, if someone's position is that homosexuality is not something society has vested interest in promoting, then the question of handing kids off to gays (as single or pair) is somewhat dicey is it not?
The question is whether your unfounded assertion that "homosexuality is against society's interests" is either correct or helpful to society as a whole.
Here's a not-so-subtle hint: if you approach people who disagree with you by calling them names, dropping epithets like "scary" and dismissing their viewpoint out of hand, they are quite likely to treat you in the same manner.
I was addressing your viewpoint as scary, not your person. You're quite welcome to treat my viewpoint (that tolerance is generally good for a free society) similarly if you wish. If you re-read my post, you'll see that I was disagreeing with you, not attacking you.
Until puberty or later pre-pubsecence, the rest of any "gender preferences" in terms of toys/games/recreation seem to be the result of cultural expectations enforced implicitly or explicitly by the surrounding adults (example: the women wear dresses, therefore the girls want to wear dresses), rather than anything hard-wired.
You're asserting that social cultural elements like style of dress or choice of toys, are determined in exactly the same way that sexual preference is determined? That's a pretty big call.
I find myself compelled to fly into a rage at your trollish insinuation that you prefer buying books from an old-fashioned book store. Take that, bricks and mortar! Raaargh!
Take the phenomenon of black males in America (as opposed to most African nations) who carry a sexual fetish for paler, light haired women.
Among dark-skinned races, lighter skin is seen as beautiful. I don't know why but I guess it's the counterpart to light-skinned races' fixation on sun tans. I know I found it amusing going from Thailand (where the TV is full of advertising for whitening creams to lighten skin colour) to England (where the TV is full of advertising for Johnsons' Holiday Skin, a popular fake tan). And it's not just dark-skinned women trying to look like white women - I've heard actresses criticised for not looking "asian enough".
As for sexuality being a choice - I challenge you to (assuming you're straight and male, adjust genders as appropriate if not) look up some gay porn and find it arousing. I bet you can't. If you can't 'choose to be gay', then how can you realistically expect others have chosen so, or that they can 'choose to be straight'? Unless you take the absurd position that everyone is intrinsically straight and that every person who claims to be gay is lying, your position is inconsistent.
Given the preceding, why is it unfair that parents (whose interest is in seeing their kids marry and produce the next generation) would be worried about their kids being told that homosexuality was "perfectly normal", "acceptable", or something else?
This is a scary viewpoint. Homosexuality is not "acceptable"? You remind me of a guy I used to work with, who said that gay couples shouldn't be allowed to adopt because "then the kids would grow up thinking it's OK".
Why, if homosexuality is "fixed", are pro-gay groups working so hard to get books promoting their lifestyle into kindergartens if not that they're trying to propagandize kids the same way and pick up some numbers?
Maybe so that those kids are more likely to think "bob likes holding hands with other boys, because he's gay, but he's still a person just like everyone else" rather than "look! it's a faggot, lets kill it!". Tolerance comes more easily with familiarity.
I'm pretty sure you don't have to be running "Super Futuristic Movie OS" with a "Design Nucular Missile System" button in order to work on missile development. Any OS that can run a CAD program (I'm taking a wild guess here and saying that's "all of them") will do just fine.
It sounds like "technical glitch" is the new get-out-of-jail-free card for any big corporation that makes a bad call and wants to avoid public backlash.
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On a serious note, I'd heard so much about Compiz being a "rip off of Vista Aero" that I was quite disappointed to finally get Vista at work and not have the wobbly windows, funky rotating cube of desktops, exposé clone etc. :/
:) Now to get Trackmania Nations working under Wine... >.<
Ah well, at least I get to use the superior solution at home.
I can't really imagine a practical use for this (a lightning rod seems like a much cheaper solution) but it's pretty nifty science.
Electron beam weapons. Don't use it to get lightning *from* a cloud, use it to send lightning *to* your target. Think a taser with a laser tether instead of cords.
Anybody want a peanut?
I paid myself the AUD $185 that I was going to spend on Vista.
Actually, I was going to say that blaming MS for bad drivers is like blaming GM for bad... well... drivers.
(In the olden days, sometimes it was a loose SATA cable - but the newer ones with latches have rectified that. Who the fuck designed the SATA plug? It's a travesty!)
The same guy who designed the power adapter connector thingy on my Sony Ericsson W880i phone. I swore after my last phone's power connector died and I stopped being able to charge it that I'd never get another Ericsson... then the new model seduced me with its shiny slimness. And now, a month after the warranty runs out, the charger's already getting finicky. Dammit!
I was shooting for 'stapler', myself.
If it has a date display, then that's very impressive. O.o
There is such a thing as a "Web Designer" but calling a Front-End Dev a "Web Designer" is pejorative. It implies typical software developer usability-blindness.
Not at all. The back end has to be functional, efficient, and secure. The front end has the much harder task of being "nice to use". This is a design issue, not an implementation one, except where implementation affects the user experience, and hence "web designer" is the appropriate term.
If anything, I'd say you have it backwards here. A front-end dev is responsible for the javascript and the interface with the back end, but the web designer is the guy who makes the website not suck.
So wait... you're saying that email is written spoken words rather than written words that may be spoken? And that by that logic, slander is the appropriate term?
Nice try. ;)
For a while there gay culture was booming (South Park even did that metro-sexual episode).
Um... metro isn't gay. Metro is those guys who had "I wish I was queer so I could get chicks" on permanent repeat throughout their teens and honestly believe that pretending to be gay will get them some pussy. Hell, for a while they were right...
I don't know about black people, but the history of beauty standards in western europe show that the attraction is about "I don't have to work for a living".
Damn, I never thought of it like that but now you mention it, that makes a lot of sense...
I missed the part where the President got the power to fire executives of private companies.
He doesn't. He just gets the power to bail them out with billions of taxpayer dollars. And he has the choice whether or not to do that, and he (quite rightly, IMO) believes that high-level execs who justify their exorbitant salaries based on the profits of the company as a whole should not be paid those exorbitant salaries (out of said taxpayer dollars) in the face of their recent abject failure.
Here's an experiment for you - find some random object/picture and stare at it while jacking off. Do that enough times, and you'll start to get horny when you see the object. It's a conditioned response involving brain chemistry and hormones. See also: Pavlov.
Here's an experiment for you - try doing exactly what I said before. Go watch gay porn and see if it excites you. I'm pretty sure it won't. Given that people have (unsuccessfully) tried all sorts of things from electro-shock therapy to hypnosis to 'cure' homosexuality, I'd be very surprised if simple classical conditioning is able to change sexual orientation.
Again, if someone's position is that homosexuality is not something society has vested interest in promoting, then the question of handing kids off to gays (as single or pair) is somewhat dicey is it not?
The question is whether your unfounded assertion that "homosexuality is against society's interests" is either correct or helpful to society as a whole.
Here's a not-so-subtle hint: if you approach people who disagree with you by calling them names, dropping epithets like "scary" and dismissing their viewpoint out of hand, they are quite likely to treat you in the same manner.
I was addressing your viewpoint as scary, not your person. You're quite welcome to treat my viewpoint (that tolerance is generally good for a free society) similarly if you wish. If you re-read my post, you'll see that I was disagreeing with you, not attacking you.
Until puberty or later pre-pubsecence, the rest of any "gender preferences" in terms of toys/games/recreation seem to be the result of cultural expectations enforced implicitly or explicitly by the surrounding adults (example: the women wear dresses, therefore the girls want to wear dresses), rather than anything hard-wired.
You're asserting that social cultural elements like style of dress or choice of toys, are determined in exactly the same way that sexual preference is determined? That's a pretty big call.
Thankyou. I was just about to launch on my usual rant but you saved me the trouble.
I find myself compelled to fly into a rage at your trollish insinuation that you prefer buying books from an old-fashioned book store. Take that, bricks and mortar! Raaargh!
Take the phenomenon of black males in America (as opposed to most African nations) who carry a sexual fetish for paler, light haired women.
Among dark-skinned races, lighter skin is seen as beautiful. I don't know why but I guess it's the counterpart to light-skinned races' fixation on sun tans. I know I found it amusing going from Thailand (where the TV is full of advertising for whitening creams to lighten skin colour) to England (where the TV is full of advertising for Johnsons' Holiday Skin, a popular fake tan). And it's not just dark-skinned women trying to look like white women - I've heard actresses criticised for not looking "asian enough".
As for sexuality being a choice - I challenge you to (assuming you're straight and male, adjust genders as appropriate if not) look up some gay porn and find it arousing. I bet you can't. If you can't 'choose to be gay', then how can you realistically expect others have chosen so, or that they can 'choose to be straight'? Unless you take the absurd position that everyone is intrinsically straight and that every person who claims to be gay is lying, your position is inconsistent.
Given the preceding, why is it unfair that parents (whose interest is in seeing their kids marry and produce the next generation) would be worried about their kids being told that homosexuality was "perfectly normal", "acceptable", or something else?
This is a scary viewpoint. Homosexuality is not "acceptable"? You remind me of a guy I used to work with, who said that gay couples shouldn't be allowed to adopt because "then the kids would grow up thinking it's OK".
Why, if homosexuality is "fixed", are pro-gay groups working so hard to get books promoting their lifestyle into kindergartens if not that they're trying to propagandize kids the same way and pick up some numbers?
Maybe so that those kids are more likely to think "bob likes holding hands with other boys, because he's gay, but he's still a person just like everyone else" rather than "look! it's a faggot, lets kill it!". Tolerance comes more easily with familiarity.
And here was I thinking it was related to the midget autogyro of the same name...
1. and 2. are the same thing, especially if you have "1.5. Buy cutesy iPod brand loudspeakers."
"Lisa, I want to buy your rock!"
I'm pretty sure you don't have to be running "Super Futuristic Movie OS" with a "Design Nucular Missile System" button in order to work on missile development. Any OS that can run a CAD program (I'm taking a wild guess here and saying that's "all of them") will do just fine.
American weapons don't scare Americans (they should, but they don't), therefore their usage doesn't count as terrorism.
Yeah, but DNA scanners aren't yet commonplace on desktop computers...
It sounds like "technical glitch" is the new get-out-of-jail-free card for any big corporation that makes a bad call and wants to avoid public backlash.