> Animals weren't put here so we could shoot them when they interfered with our driving habits.
Oh, I didn't realize God was on Slashdot. Or do you just know his will?
Yes, it would be ignorant to say that they WERE put here for that reason, but please don't claim to know why (or why not) an animal exists. IMO, there is no real reason for it, its just that the way things turned out, the deer population booms drastically because they aren't dieing as quickly as they were before. Due to that, they now die by other means (cars, starvation, etc). Most of these deer will die one way or another, so killing them instantly with a gun could be considered more humane than letting them starve en-masse in the middle of winter. Plus, we'll get use of the meat while wintertime scavengers pick the bones of the remaining starved deer.
> When people say the valley is expensive, most of the time they're exaggerating.
I think it's less them exaggerating and more "you have no clue what things are really worth." That, of course, may not be your fault, since you live in SF.
Case in point:
> You can still get a house for $500k if you make some sacrifices.
And you claim that is not outrageously expensive???? I can buy a fucking mansion in Ohio for that much money! No sacrifices involved! I don't know if you just have no idea the true value of a dollar because you are brainwashed by rich Californians, but if I'm shelling out 500 grand, I want WAY more than a 2 bedroom townhouse. $200,000, to me, is a more reasonable price for a decent home.
> my extensive research has led be to believe that cow tipping is indeed an urban legend.
No, it's no urban legend, but people have added things that aren't there. The idea is (obviously) to push a cow over. The whole "while they are asleep" thing is just from people who don't know any better spreading the concept. Midnight cow-tipping, like you hear of in college frat movies, can be quite unproductive (although some cows are still awake & standing at times in the night), because of what you said, but if you go during the daytime, it sure is possible, easy, and has happened.
> No room for good honest hard work, not a single good and decent manager to be found anywhere.
Obviously, I have no idea who you are, where you live, or where you have worked, but my first suggestion is to look for jobs that aren't inside cities. If you go to a smaller town, the management are generally less asshole-ish. Of course, you'll get lower pay, but you won't be forced to spend 2 grand a month for an apartment or mortgage.
> At least with the bear, there's no stressful bullshit to deal with
Nope, no bullshit. But watch out for bearshit, because you might slip & fall -- in a battle to the death, you don't want that happening. Also, if you are caught by surprise by the bear, there might soon be humanshit. Right in your pants.
We have about 80 PCs in our hospital, but the CEO has about the 5th-slowest in the place. He is the most realistic executive I've ever met. He knows he doesn't need much more than EMail, Word, Excel, IE, so the performance isn't much of an issue, compared to the needs of our Clinical software.
> It's the government telling you to stop being stupid. Those are sentiments I whole-heartedly agree with.
Stop being stupid and JUST USE MS products, damnit!
No, even if it's a good idea, it's still not the government's place to tell me what to do with myself. I like the feeling of wind in my hair instead of just sweat.
But wouldn't a single Quantum computer be about as efficient as a cluster of them? If you can compute anything instantly, what's the difference between that & 5 computers figuring the same thing out? Does it become a fifth of an instant?
> If one believes that Party X is wrong, wouldn't one wish for as many as possible to be able to view Party X's site and see the wrongness for themselves?
Sorry this is so late, and I am making no statement on any particular political party, but:
If a site is filled with lies & half-truths to get people on their "side," you certainly would not want a large number of people viewing it and being influenced by incorrect information.
"On the Internet, no one knows you're a dog." Well, they don't know if you're a liar either.
BULLSHIT, BULLSHIT, BULLSHIT! In the end, it comes down to BAD PEOPLE, child or adult. Now, it may be true that the children act badly because of their bad parents, but there are plenty of great parents with little brats. Good or bad parent, they cannot be expected to hover over their children at all times. The girl was over 14 for fuck's sake. A 14-year old REALLY IS old enough to make their own decisions. If the parents kept them repressed however, as you are suggesting they do, they could just lash out harder -- and post pics of themselves masturbating on the Internet.
An example: my parents were great, but I ended up being an asshole because of the OTHER people with whom I interacted.
> instead of getting it on a piece of plastic, it should be delivered the way music was intended, i.e live.
Not all music was intended to be live. I make some music (sucks still, so no link), but I could not play it live -- that's just the nature of the stuff I do. I'm not a musician, unless you can call a PC a musical instrument, but I am still making music that is intended to be heard prerecorded.
Think Electronica. Usually not the best live stuff (although there are numerous exceptions).
> Then I block the whole sub-net [...], you could try this
I'm guessing that this guy doesn't have administrative rights to that PC, and therefore cannot implement your (very good) solution. Dunno for sure, though.
> keep your children away from these cesspools of society (public schools).
Fucking trolls... Locally, Catholic schools came out with more drug addicts and miscreants than the public schools. Granted, it's not dowtown NY, NY, but it's still a city.
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> According to humans or natural trends?
Yes. (that means "both")
> Animals weren't put here so we could shoot them when they interfered with our driving habits.
Oh, I didn't realize God was on Slashdot. Or do you just know his will?
Yes, it would be ignorant to say that they WERE put here for that reason, but please don't claim to know why (or why not) an animal exists. IMO, there is no real reason for it, its just that the way things turned out, the deer population booms drastically because they aren't dieing as quickly as they were before. Due to that, they now die by other means (cars, starvation, etc). Most of these deer will die one way or another, so killing them instantly with a gun could be considered more humane than letting them starve en-masse in the middle of winter. Plus, we'll get use of the meat while wintertime scavengers pick the bones of the remaining starved deer.
> It would be great if the two groups could get together and recognize they aren't as divided as they thought on this issue
They know how similar they are. They each just act like they are different to try to fool us into voting for them instead of their mirror image.
> I would bet a blind money could hammer away at a typewriter and finish writing Hamlet before I would bet SCO would win.
Money or Monkey? I guess it doesn't matter -- either way, it's the same amount of time.
> The whole SCO IP thing is a Brookland Bridge sale...
Do you mean Brooklyn Bridge?
Bitemyass.slashdot.org as well. I believe *.slashdot.org, unless assigned elsewhere, will go to the main site.
> When people say the valley is expensive, most of the time they're exaggerating.
I think it's less them exaggerating and more "you have no clue what things are really worth." That, of course, may not be your fault, since you live in SF.
Case in point:
> You can still get a house for $500k if you make some sacrifices.
And you claim that is not outrageously expensive???? I can buy a fucking mansion in Ohio for that much money! No sacrifices involved! I don't know if you just have no idea the true value of a dollar because you are brainwashed by rich Californians, but if I'm shelling out 500 grand, I want WAY more than a 2 bedroom townhouse. $200,000, to me, is a more reasonable price for a decent home.
> It may just be me, but I'd hesitate to tar any large group with the same brush.
* This in no way reflects on you personally, as I don't know you or your opinions *
Then why is it that nearly every foreigner I hear lumps all Americans together as the same group, even though the group is 10+ times larger?
> Most people in the UK haven't even heard of "at will employment"
Not "at will?" What, are they slaves or something? They never quit their jobs?
> East coast is a fuck of a lot better than the west coast...
And the people on the East aren't all L.A. fake. Except in D.C. & Maryland. Oh, and Florida, but that's really the South, not the East.
> my extensive research has led be to believe that cow tipping is indeed an urban legend.
No, it's no urban legend, but people have added things that aren't there. The idea is (obviously) to push a cow over. The whole "while they are asleep" thing is just from people who don't know any better spreading the concept. Midnight cow-tipping, like you hear of in college frat movies, can be quite unproductive (although some cows are still awake & standing at times in the night), because of what you said, but if you go during the daytime, it sure is possible, easy, and has happened.
> No room for good honest hard work, not a single good and decent manager to be found anywhere.
Obviously, I have no idea who you are, where you live, or where you have worked, but my first suggestion is to look for jobs that aren't inside cities. If you go to a smaller town, the management are generally less asshole-ish. Of course, you'll get lower pay, but you won't be forced to spend 2 grand a month for an apartment or mortgage.
> At least with the bear, there's no stressful bullshit to deal with
Nope, no bullshit. But watch out for bearshit, because you might slip & fall -- in a battle to the death, you don't want that happening. Also, if you are caught by surprise by the bear, there might soon be humanshit. Right in your pants.
*another hand rises*
We have about 80 PCs in our hospital, but the CEO has about the 5th-slowest in the place. He is the most realistic executive I've ever met. He knows he doesn't need much more than EMail, Word, Excel, IE, so the performance isn't much of an issue, compared to the needs of our Clinical software.
> So, you==everyone then?
More like you=failed logic class.
He said "I," implying he spoke for himself.
You bring up seatbelt laws as if we were in universal agreement. I am against those as well, except for minors.
And just because a law hasn't changed the world, doesn't mean it SHOULD (or should not) be a law.
> It's the government telling you to stop being stupid. Those are sentiments I whole-heartedly agree with.
Stop being stupid and JUST USE MS products, damnit!
No, even if it's a good idea, it's still not the government's place to tell me what to do with myself. I like the feeling of wind in my hair instead of just sweat.
Haha, that's great!
> Imagine a beowulf cluster of quantum computers!
But wouldn't a single Quantum computer be about as efficient as a cluster of them? If you can compute anything instantly, what's the difference between that & 5 computers figuring the same thing out? Does it become a fifth of an instant?
> If one believes that Party X is wrong, wouldn't one wish for as many as possible to be able to view Party X's site and see the wrongness for themselves?
Sorry this is so late, and I am making no statement on any particular political party, but:
If a site is filled with lies & half-truths to get people on their "side," you certainly would not want a large number of people viewing it and being influenced by incorrect information.
"On the Internet, no one knows you're a dog." Well, they don't know if you're a liar either.
Wow, that was beautifully written. So well, in fact, that I can't add anything of substance to it, so I'll just say thanks for the reply!
> I didn't notice that actually.
:)
Yeah, it's happened to me too many times. And usually when it does happen to me, I find out because I said something stupid to the wrong person.
> In the end it comes down to bad parenting.
BULLSHIT, BULLSHIT, BULLSHIT! In the end, it comes down to BAD PEOPLE, child or adult. Now, it may be true that the children act badly because of their bad parents, but there are plenty of great parents with little brats. Good or bad parent, they cannot be expected to hover over their children at all times. The girl was over 14 for fuck's sake. A 14-year old REALLY IS old enough to make their own decisions. If the parents kept them repressed however, as you are suggesting they do, they could just lash out harder -- and post pics of themselves masturbating on the Internet.
An example: my parents were great, but I ended up being an asshole because of the OTHER people with whom I interacted.
> instead of getting it on a piece of plastic, it should be delivered the way music was intended, i.e live.
Not all music was intended to be live. I make some music (sucks still, so no link), but I could not play it live -- that's just the nature of the stuff I do. I'm not a musician, unless you can call a PC a musical instrument, but I am still making music that is intended to be heard prerecorded.
Think Electronica. Usually not the best live stuff (although there are numerous exceptions).
> Then I block the whole sub-net [...], you could try this
I'm guessing that this guy doesn't have administrative rights to that PC, and therefore cannot implement your (very good) solution. Dunno for sure, though.
> I'm LOOKING for my 5th grade bully on the internet
I'd like to do the same, but you have to wonder if the person has changed since...
> keep your children away from these cesspools of society (public schools).
Fucking trolls... Locally, Catholic schools came out with more drug addicts and miscreants than the public schools. Granted, it's not dowtown NY, NY, but it's still a city.