On a side note i'm not that great with people skills so while i write the tests i no longer do the interviews - last too applicants ended up crying during the tests.
Huh, you might work for my company. An entire software department in a company I may know about has jumped ship wholesale, with one person literally getting up and walking out with no notice, and chatter of the remainder leaving, because its run by an insecure touretty-aspie asshole.
The funny thing is, he (you?) asks all new hires how they can "think outside the box" and make the department better. When people actually bring up useful suggestions, he gets all butthurt and snappy and puts them on his shit-list for making him feel stupid, harassing them at every opportunity. He's certainly one of you, raised in an affluent household and given everything he wanted while mommy made excuses for his rotten behavior. Working for the company is a double-edged sword - it is impossible to be fired for anything short of murder. It's hell when you get stuck with the wrong boss.
But Ethanol, isn't harassment illegal?
In corporate Amerika, harassment is not illegal unless the harassment falls under a protected category like race or gender. That means your boss yelling at you daily for inadvertently making him look stupid is not really harassment.
But Ethanol, why doesn't anybody complain?
Because the economy sucks and some people have families to feed. The ones who don't would not dare jeopardize their good references within the company, because nobody likes a complainer. You know those 3-page exit surveys you get? HR laughs at them and tosses them in the trash anyway.
There are many people who have no social life and interaction and it's not because the lack of will or persistence. They want but they just can't.
That is defeatist bullshit. Yes, it will take years to pull themselves out of that rut, but the proper resources can expedite the process. Those types should begin with researching low self-esteem, Munchausen syndrome by proxy with respect to their parents, the fact that people are only animals, and anything else relevant. There are many well-document axioms within that much-maligned field of Psychology.
The world is actually very tolerant of eccentrics, for different values of eccentricity and provided that you know how to properly be an asshole.
Hint: the guy hunched over his phone/calculator or whatever and writing programs on it is still and always will be a nerd.
I had that attitude for many years, until I saw a black guy on a skateboard the other day. His pants weren't sagging around his knees and I'm fairly certain that there was no gun in his waistband. He was even wearing uncool spectacles and a VANS T-shirt!
Nah, maybe you're right. That convenience store owner down the street had better watch his cash register.
Yup. Microsoft's ribbon and Ubuntu's Unity are like those lame attempts of annoying high-school kids trying to compensate for their lack of personalities by dressing and behaving outrageously annoyingly ("Look how different we are, man! You're just a conformist square!").
There's a reason why Just Works(tm) just works. Operation, not appearance, is the better indicator of personality.
No, as somebody who works in that field, we would call 'em "tethered ROVs (remotely operated underwater vehicles)."
By the way, this is what a real one looks like. Notice the big cord sticking out of the top.
Here's come constructive criticism of the journal itself. Bruce, you listenin'? In the 3d printer section, details are given on how to write the parabola. The other articles seem to be glorified links to sites. Is the journal meant to be instructional, or just a showcase, or both? I for one would love to see more detailed information on how to, for example, modify the ROV's sensors to determine the distance to the bottom based on the time-amplitude of pulses, or to program stepper motors so that one could run a "race" untethered. I understand that not all of us are technical people, however we should keep it at a level above Dick and Jane.
Another gripe I personally don't care about, but others might, is that the USB guy gives a disclaimer saying, "Well, it's not completely free, but deal with it." It's sure to annoy all the mouth-breathing purists.
One more question, Bruce - I've designed an automatic waterpipe(informally known as a "bong") utilizing a pump and some valves. Will you be willing to print it despite its controversy?
Many thanks for your answers, if you provide some.
Especially because the FBI makes extensive use of well-paid criminal snitches to gather intelligence. If the snitches have no real leads, then they can manufacture them by saying that ol' Abu down the street is up to no good. The FBI then stalk and browbeat Abu until he admits that he is up to activity that may be considered support of terrorism in the loosest sense.
The FBI then busts Abu and all the mainstream media hail the "operation" as thwarting another terrorist attack. Another "terrorist" is jailed, the snitch is paid anywhere from hundreds to hundreds of thousands of dollars per year(I'm not joking, Google it), all while your family is eating ramen noodles for dinner.
Also keep in mind that all of these "terror plots" are manufactured in their entirety by the FBI. All they do is find a moron who is dumb enough to attempt to enact them, then they goad end entrap the poor fool.
A decent tablet that would allow all the perks of a full-fledged OS (say, access to all hardware resources and compiling and running your own unsigned applications without registering and paying a fee) instead of a locked-down phone-like OS would be worth $500 or more, especially if it were manufactured by Apple.
A big, glorified demi-phone like the iPad is worth $200-300 tops in the eyes of the tech-savvy consumer. Now its on HP and others to undercut the faddists and pull common-sense miracles out of their asses.
Shortly after a close friend *cough, cough* was hired at a company I don't work for *cough cough* The HR manager gave a brief powerpoint summary of ITAR, then went on to say^W tell him with an evil grin, "But we have ways of getting around that."
According to those rules, there are 5 countries on our government's shit-list that we never sell to: Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria. For many others, requests have to be filed and delays of months are not unheard of. It's how the State Department plays favorites.
Besides using third-party "export firms" for the deals, simpler tricks may be played - playing games with serial numbers, for example. The subject of any serious ITAR-compliant transaction also may include Customs opening up the gadget in question, to ensure nobody's smuggling coke or setting them up the bomb.
1. How "3rd party" are the 3rd parties? Shit does get smuggled sometimes; but people have been known to wink that their Dubai based VARs so long as the money is there...Blue Coat should have been well aware of what was going on, and roughly where...
Hey, that rhymes. What you stated also happens all the time. When shadowy new laws designed to enrich US arms dealers are knee-jerkedly signed in times of war, the arms components suppliers wink at their middlemen in South America or the Middle East, who wink back at them saying "no, these ITAR-controlled components will most certainly not be resold to Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan or Syria! Wink wink."
Then the US gubmint finds out and fines the hell out of, say, Lockheed Martin. Lockheed Martin, in turn, says that they had no idea that the components were to be sold to Syria and cites a twisted interpretation of said shadowy US war law.
We're not talking about just the TSA here - we're talking about the entire DHS which includes the TSA, Border Partol, and ICE and customs. The border patrol already have checkpoints up to 100 miles inland.
Have you ever driven through them? I do on a regular basis. I get eyefucked, questioned up the wazoo, pulled to secondary, and sniffed up and down with dogs even though there is nothing suspicious about me or my vehicle(of which I am obviously the only occupant).
Do you know that ICE/Customs is actively redirecting from websites and prosecuting music and other copyright piracy? Do you think that ICE, Immigration and Customs, was originally meant to troll P2P sites to prosecute child porn?
How do you feel about Fusion Centers? And that's just the DHS. The law enforcement and private security corporations(and their crooked, paid snitches) are collecing intel on discontents like you and I, when before they'd just drive the beat and arrest anybody behaving blatantly stupid. The new threat is mission creep, plain and simple.
Also, replying to dkleinsc above - There are a group of Marines who support the people. That's great. My heart goes out to them as well as the brave Marine who recently took that ruthless beating. But how many military or ex-military personnel(or just plain ultraconservative creeps) are still dismissing Americas discontents as a bunch of "rich liberal pot-smoking bongo-beating hippie faggots?" I live in San Diego, one of the largest military areas in the country. What I see from the military kind is not very reassuring at all.
Yes. Those otherwise-unemployable troops overseas have to do something for a living when they come home, right? You don't want angry goons with PTSD, who had to watch their buddies be turned into hamburger for oil and big business, having too much idle time on their hands being unable to care for their families. Better to continue to pay 'em to take their primitive aggression out on those pinko peaceniks and marijuana joints.
The irony is that the DHS labelled that same demographic a potential terrorist threat, causing an uproar.
Because we can choose to use KDE or Enlightenment instead. We can also use Firefox and not have to have Opera(for example, taking place of IE) waste space on our computers.
If Microsoft are so badass, and willing to make all of those kitchy well-publicized challenges to *nix, then why don't they make the latest version of IE cross-platform(IE and office were once available for Macs!) and let it really compete?
Firefox, Opera, and Chrome are three of the most highly-regarded browsers and all run on all three dominant platforms without hacks.
What about IE and Safari? No? Then crawl back to your walled gardens.
What we are seeing is that, as the LulzSec hackings proved, is that information is more important than profit.
Be a big corporation negligent of retention of customer data. Blame your negligence on somebody else. Convince the dumb bullies in charge of America's security cyberinfrastructure (there are a lot of spoiled rich kids who play those games, after all) that terrorists are breaking the whole thing down. It's the invisible manufactured terror-pedos' fault, not the blatant negligence of the card-holders.
Bu who believes America's mouthpiece nowadays? Who is the bigger threat to national security? The corporations selling data to the theives, or the data owners who try to protect their own livelihoods?
Especially in this economy. My employer produces the best products in its niche, and neglected its repair/bug fixing apparatus because it could just sell or offer the customer a still-costy exchange for latest model. Now all of the customers not buying or exchanging but are sending in their existing shit to be fixed, and nobody wants to give the repair apparatus the funding it needs because there are too many middle-management bonuses at stake. Internal parasitism runs rampant in corporations, hand-in-hand with short-term profits.
Also notice that I said, "best products in its niche." That means that our customers have too much invested in our products to launch any credible threat to use our competitors' gadgets. They're stuck. You, our customer, paid tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars for our products, and we are fixing them with hairpins, duct tape, and bubblegum. We have no engineering support because all of our engineers are either doing jack shit waiting to retire, jumping ship, or are fixing the bugs in our newest product line which is years late and still doesn't work.
And we're fine with that, because at this point all we care about are our paychecks. We are the ninety-nine percent.
XP itself never crashed(BSOD'd) unless you had serious hardware (or later, malware when it became sufficiently virulent) problems. It also otherwise Just Worked(TM).
Compare that to the stinking unworkable piles of shit that were the average Linux distros at the time, hell, I remember Gnome back when XP was released and it looked like some horrible blocky IRIX knockoff. That was back when ISP's gave you shell accounts and the only sane uses of Linux were running servers and taking IRC channels. As far as the speed, stability, and usability of Linux distros go; they are still playing catch-up to Windows XP, especially with respect to the dominant third-party applications.
As a gifted troublemaker born into a family of educators, I find that the problem is not bad teachers. The problem is parents who never said no to their little Johnny when he screamed and cried for his fifth Twinkie of the day. The problem is parents too caught up in their own careers or reliving their youth to actually do any damn parenting. You parents insist that your rotten spawn be allowed to use cell phones in class for "safety" reasons, you insist on suing the schools whenever a teacher tries to discipline your shithead kid and then bitch and moan all day that teachers aren't doing their jobs ( "my little Johnny is an angel, he would never do a thing like that!"). Of course the rich Right is all over it, saying that the teachers are bad and that the only solution is more budget cuts for public schools. What?!
Hey, bub, news flash - Teachers can't do their jobs because of assholes like you!
Your shithead kids are unmotivated and undisciplined because you have failed in your responsibility as parents, spoiling rotten your fat little narcissistic shitheads who grow up with gadgetry and unrealistic expectations and ADD medication as their only parents. You, are out at the bar looking for a new wife, or out driving your ridiculously expensive sports car, or working unnecessary 16-hour days collecting pig disgusting amounts of money and power to stroke your own ego.
It is you, the parents, who have failed in your responsibility, not the teachers. Back the fuck off. Goddamn yuppies.
It's not entirely worthless. All those otherwise unemployable troops stationed in the middle-East have to do something when they come home, right?
It's simple, really - first you destroy the economy, so that the only decent jobs left are security or defense-related. Second, the ideology problem solves itself because troops and security guards already drink the government Kool-aid, and the rest will have no jobs/money/resources to properly affect change. Third, those with no jobs/money/resources will become ever more desperate over time, and will be encouraged more and more to report subversives to their local political officer. Guess what, everybody - the original Gestapo numbered very few, but they owe their success to a desperate paranoid population willing to rat others out for reasons like "suspicious behavior." America will then manufacture a reason to either prolong the existing wars or start new ones, and her existing population will have no choice but to be part of the war machine or rot in jails or FEMA camps.
Do any of you live in San Diego? They blamed a recent rolling blackout (most cell service was also down) on some hapless technician in Arizona, but the reality was that they were doing a dry run of a inconvenient but harmless "false flag" terrorist attack or rehearsing how they would take the advantage in a martial law situation after a popular revolt.
Let's go over this one time:
- 9/11, Amerika's Reichstag fire, Amerika goes to war in the middle-East, Amerika expands its domestic Gestapo apparatus and restricts free speech, Amerika destroys economy to limit options so more people become troops/security, Amerika continues war and starts more wars, Amerika outlaws free speech and the internet, popular revolt begins and is crushed by hired paramilitary goons, Amerika expands its war into Iran and compromises other Arab states along the way crushing all resistance, Amerika begins war with China and Russia is forced to intervene on China's behalf.
World War III, baby. Amerika is the new Nazi Germany.
I bet that it's a buncha kids dreaming of some kinda home automation and/or media control system. No self-respecting DARPA project associate would ask such a queer question. They are correct in catering to the affluent, as that is the only logical career choice in America.
Here's a tip, kids - Instead of hacking together something from scratch, just buy a Samsung Galaxy tab and work from there. Problem solved.
He's Japanese. Lots of digits, small dick. I bet daddy lets him drive the Porsche around town when he's not busy neckbearding it up with his servers in the family house's basement.
As a very drunk and obnoxiously self-indulgent doctor of Anthropology, I officially declare that this discussion is known in 4chan.random( ) parlance as a "faggot thread." I was going to mention the "Rock Hudson" analog, but several astute participants beat me to it.
As a straight man sympathetic to the plight of the gays, I agree that anal sex is a loose-loose situation. Far too many people(of both genders) do not clean their buttholes properly, often shitting and not showering before the anticipated anal sex act. It was that same situation which had turned me away from giving anal sex when I performed my first cornhole in my friend's bedroom at at age fiifteen. She was a big girl, butt her stench was wafting up to my nose.
Do you know what comes out of that hole? Please, please - it doesn't matter what gender you are. Just please clean your rectum. Are you anticipating receiving anal sex later? Please shower and cleanse your rectum at least knuckle-deep. If you are really, really poor you can go into a McDonald's bathroom and wipe until there's no brown or yellow on the paper. Having a clean ass is important in many cultures - see that long pinky fingernail on the hands of Arabs and some Asians running those Mom-and-Pop liquor stores? That means that they have a clean ass and don't hate themselves like most women do.
It is the personal experience of myself and all of my totally-hetero male friends that women have not been properly taught to clean their assholes. One friend even referred to the smell of his girl's butthole as "cinnamon-like," causing us to play Neil Young's "Cinnamon girl" whilst howling with laughter(she says that she "doesn't get it" and walks out for her 20th smoke of the day). Why, ladies? Is your butthole too dainty to be properly cleaned? Do ladies fear their buttholes, or just assume that they smell like roses because everything else they do smells like roses?
The most attractive girl I ever boned was flawless on the outside, but when all the clothes came off her pits stank like a mold colony and "down there" she smelled a little, well, could use a little Ivory.
March on the Capitol.
March on Wall Street, you look like greedy morons who don't care about anything other than your own trust funds.
March on the capitol, we have real problems to solve.
Grow a fucking pair and encroach on the Capitol. I'll join you if you grow your own pair. Sissies.
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On a side note i'm not that great with people skills so while i write the tests i no longer do the interviews - last too applicants ended up crying during the tests.
Huh, you might work for my company. An entire software department in a company I may know about has jumped ship wholesale, with one person literally getting up and walking out with no notice, and chatter of the remainder leaving, because its run by an insecure touretty-aspie asshole.
The funny thing is, he (you?) asks all new hires how they can "think outside the box" and make the department better. When people actually bring up useful suggestions, he gets all butthurt and snappy and puts them on his shit-list for making him feel stupid, harassing them at every opportunity. He's certainly one of you, raised in an affluent household and given everything he wanted while mommy made excuses for his rotten behavior. Working for the company is a double-edged sword - it is impossible to be fired for anything short of murder. It's hell when you get stuck with the wrong boss.
But Ethanol, isn't harassment illegal?
In corporate Amerika, harassment is not illegal unless the harassment falls under a protected category like race or gender. That means your boss yelling at you daily for inadvertently making him look stupid is not really harassment.
But Ethanol, why doesn't anybody complain?
Because the economy sucks and some people have families to feed. The ones who don't would not dare jeopardize their good references within the company, because nobody likes a complainer. You know those 3-page exit surveys you get? HR laughs at them and tosses them in the trash anyway.
There are many people who have no social life and interaction and it's not because the lack of will or persistence. They want but they just can't.
That is defeatist bullshit. Yes, it will take years to pull themselves out of that rut, but the proper resources can expedite the process. Those types should begin with researching low self-esteem, Munchausen syndrome by proxy with respect to their parents, the fact that people are only animals, and anything else relevant. There are many well-document axioms within that much-maligned field of Psychology.
The world is actually very tolerant of eccentrics, for different values of eccentricity and provided that you know how to properly be an asshole.
Hint: the guy hunched over his phone/calculator or whatever and writing programs on it is still and always will be a nerd.
I had that attitude for many years, until I saw a black guy on a skateboard the other day. His pants weren't sagging around his knees and I'm fairly certain that there was no gun in his waistband. He was even wearing uncool spectacles and a VANS T-shirt!
Nah, maybe you're right. That convenience store owner down the street had better watch his cash register.
Yup. Microsoft's ribbon and Ubuntu's Unity are like those lame attempts of annoying high-school kids trying to compensate for their lack of personalities by dressing and behaving outrageously annoyingly ("Look how different we are, man! You're just a conformist square!").
There's a reason why Just Works(tm) just works. Operation, not appearance, is the better indicator of personality.
No, as somebody who works in that field, we would call 'em "tethered ROVs (remotely operated underwater vehicles)."
By the way, this is what a real one looks like. Notice the big cord sticking out of the top.
Here's come constructive criticism of the journal itself. Bruce, you listenin'? In the 3d printer section, details are given on how to write the parabola. The other articles seem to be glorified links to sites. Is the journal meant to be instructional, or just a showcase, or both? I for one would love to see more detailed information on how to, for example, modify the ROV's sensors to determine the distance to the bottom based on the time-amplitude of pulses, or to program stepper motors so that one could run a "race" untethered. I understand that not all of us are technical people, however we should keep it at a level above Dick and Jane.
Another gripe I personally don't care about, but others might, is that the USB guy gives a disclaimer saying, "Well, it's not completely free, but deal with it." It's sure to annoy all the mouth-breathing purists.
One more question, Bruce - I've designed an automatic waterpipe(informally known as a "bong") utilizing a pump and some valves. Will you be willing to print it despite its controversy?
Many thanks for your answers, if you provide some.
Especially because the FBI makes extensive use of well-paid criminal snitches to gather intelligence. If the snitches have no real leads, then they can manufacture them by saying that ol' Abu down the street is up to no good. The FBI then stalk and browbeat Abu until he admits that he is up to activity that may be considered support of terrorism in the loosest sense.
The FBI then busts Abu and all the mainstream media hail the "operation" as thwarting another terrorist attack. Another "terrorist" is jailed, the snitch is paid anywhere from hundreds to hundreds of thousands of dollars per year(I'm not joking, Google it), all while your family is eating ramen noodles for dinner.
Also keep in mind that all of these "terror plots" are manufactured in their entirety by the FBI. All they do is find a moron who is dumb enough to attempt to enact them, then they goad end entrap the poor fool.
Goatse is a photographic paradox - in traditional photography, aperture size decreases depth of field.
A decent tablet that would allow all the perks of a full-fledged OS (say, access to all hardware resources and compiling and running your own unsigned applications without registering and paying a fee) instead of a locked-down phone-like OS would be worth $500 or more, especially if it were manufactured by Apple.
A big, glorified demi-phone like the iPad is worth $200-300 tops in the eyes of the tech-savvy consumer. Now its on HP and others to undercut the faddists and pull common-sense miracles out of their asses.
That's what ITAR is supposed to address.
Shortly after a close friend *cough, cough* was hired at a company I don't work for *cough cough* The HR manager gave a brief powerpoint summary of ITAR, then went on to say^W tell him with an evil grin, "But we have ways of getting around that." According to those rules, there are 5 countries on our government's shit-list that we never sell to: Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria. For many others, requests have to be filed and delays of months are not unheard of. It's how the State Department plays favorites.
Besides using third-party "export firms" for the deals, simpler tricks may be played - playing games with serial numbers, for example. The subject of any serious ITAR-compliant transaction also may include Customs opening up the gadget in question, to ensure nobody's smuggling coke or setting them up the bomb.
1. How "3rd party" are the 3rd parties? Shit does get smuggled sometimes; but people have been known to wink that their Dubai based VARs so long as the money is there...Blue Coat should have been well aware of what was going on, and roughly where...
Hey, that rhymes. What you stated also happens all the time. When shadowy new laws designed to enrich US arms dealers are knee-jerkedly signed in times of war, the arms components suppliers wink at their middlemen in South America or the Middle East, who wink back at them saying "no, these ITAR-controlled components will most certainly not be resold to Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan or Syria! Wink wink."
Then the US gubmint finds out and fines the hell out of, say, Lockheed Martin. Lockheed Martin, in turn, says that they had no idea that the components were to be sold to Syria and cites a twisted interpretation of said shadowy US war law.
We're not talking about just the TSA here - we're talking about the entire DHS which includes the TSA, Border Partol, and ICE and customs. The border patrol already have checkpoints up to 100 miles inland.
Have you ever driven through them? I do on a regular basis. I get eyefucked, questioned up the wazoo, pulled to secondary, and sniffed up and down with dogs even though there is nothing suspicious about me or my vehicle(of which I am obviously the only occupant).
Do you know that ICE/Customs is actively redirecting from websites and prosecuting music and other copyright piracy? Do you think that ICE, Immigration and Customs, was originally meant to troll P2P sites to prosecute child porn?
How do you feel about Fusion Centers? And that's just the DHS. The law enforcement and private security corporations(and their crooked, paid snitches) are collecing intel on discontents like you and I, when before they'd just drive the beat and arrest anybody behaving blatantly stupid. The new threat is mission creep, plain and simple.
Also, replying to dkleinsc above - There are a group of Marines who support the people. That's great. My heart goes out to them as well as the brave Marine who recently took that ruthless beating. But how many military or ex-military personnel(or just plain ultraconservative creeps) are still dismissing Americas discontents as a bunch of "rich liberal pot-smoking bongo-beating hippie faggots?" I live in San Diego, one of the largest military areas in the country. What I see from the military kind is not very reassuring at all.
Yes. Those otherwise-unemployable troops overseas have to do something for a living when they come home, right? You don't want angry goons with PTSD, who had to watch their buddies be turned into hamburger for oil and big business, having too much idle time on their hands being unable to care for their families. Better to continue to pay 'em to take their primitive aggression out on those pinko peaceniks and marijuana joints.
The irony is that the DHS labelled that same demographic a potential terrorist threat, causing an uproar.
Because we can choose to use KDE or Enlightenment instead. We can also use Firefox and not have to have Opera(for example, taking place of IE) waste space on our computers.
If Microsoft are so badass, and willing to make all of those kitchy well-publicized challenges to *nix, then why don't they make the latest version of IE cross-platform(IE and office were once available for Macs!) and let it really compete?
Firefox, Opera, and Chrome are three of the most highly-regarded browsers and all run on all three dominant platforms without hacks.
What about IE and Safari? No? Then crawl back to your walled gardens.
What we are seeing is that, as the LulzSec hackings proved, is that information is more important than profit.
Be a big corporation negligent of retention of customer data. Blame your negligence on somebody else. Convince the dumb bullies in charge of America's security cyberinfrastructure (there are a lot of spoiled rich kids who play those games, after all) that terrorists are breaking the whole thing down. It's the invisible manufactured terror-pedos' fault, not the blatant negligence of the card-holders.
Bu who believes America's mouthpiece nowadays? Who is the bigger threat to national security? The corporations selling data to the theives, or the data owners who try to protect their own livelihoods?
You can see the anger stamped into her forehead, as if she were a Klingon or attacked by a Tostitos press.
Especially in this economy. My employer produces the best products in its niche, and neglected its repair/bug fixing apparatus because it could just sell or offer the customer a still-costy exchange for latest model. Now all of the customers not buying or exchanging but are sending in their existing shit to be fixed, and nobody wants to give the repair apparatus the funding it needs because there are too many middle-management bonuses at stake. Internal parasitism runs rampant in corporations, hand-in-hand with short-term profits.
Also notice that I said, "best products in its niche." That means that our customers have too much invested in our products to launch any credible threat to use our competitors' gadgets. They're stuck. You, our customer, paid tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars for our products, and we are fixing them with hairpins, duct tape, and bubblegum. We have no engineering support because all of our engineers are either doing jack shit waiting to retire, jumping ship, or are fixing the bugs in our newest product line which is years late and still doesn't work.
And we're fine with that, because at this point all we care about are our paychecks. We are the ninety-nine percent.
XP itself never crashed(BSOD'd) unless you had serious hardware (or later, malware when it became sufficiently virulent) problems. It also otherwise Just Worked(TM).
Compare that to the stinking unworkable piles of shit that were the average Linux distros at the time, hell, I remember Gnome back when XP was released and it looked like some horrible blocky IRIX knockoff. That was back when ISP's gave you shell accounts and the only sane uses of Linux were running servers and taking IRC channels. As far as the speed, stability, and usability of Linux distros go; they are still playing catch-up to Windows XP, especially with respect to the dominant third-party applications.
And I'm a hardcore Linux/UNIX fan.
That's because men are horny and women are gossipy.
And to fire teachers who cannot teach.
As a gifted troublemaker born into a family of educators, I find that the problem is not bad teachers. The problem is parents who never said no to their little Johnny when he screamed and cried for his fifth Twinkie of the day. The problem is parents too caught up in their own careers or reliving their youth to actually do any damn parenting. You parents insist that your rotten spawn be allowed to use cell phones in class for "safety" reasons, you insist on suing the schools whenever a teacher tries to discipline your shithead kid and then bitch and moan all day that teachers aren't doing their jobs ( "my little Johnny is an angel, he would never do a thing like that!"). Of course the rich Right is all over it, saying that the teachers are bad and that the only solution is more budget cuts for public schools. What?!
Hey, bub, news flash - Teachers can't do their jobs because of assholes like you!
Your shithead kids are unmotivated and undisciplined because you have failed in your responsibility as parents, spoiling rotten your fat little narcissistic shitheads who grow up with gadgetry and unrealistic expectations and ADD medication as their only parents. You, are out at the bar looking for a new wife, or out driving your ridiculously expensive sports car, or working unnecessary 16-hour days collecting pig disgusting amounts of money and power to stroke your own ego.
It is you, the parents, who have failed in your responsibility, not the teachers. Back the fuck off. Goddamn yuppies.
It's not entirely worthless. All those otherwise unemployable troops stationed in the middle-East have to do something when they come home, right?
It's simple, really - first you destroy the economy, so that the only decent jobs left are security or defense-related. Second, the ideology problem solves itself because troops and security guards already drink the government Kool-aid, and the rest will have no jobs/money/resources to properly affect change. Third, those with no jobs/money/resources will become ever more desperate over time, and will be encouraged more and more to report subversives to their local political officer. Guess what, everybody - the original Gestapo numbered very few, but they owe their success to a desperate paranoid population willing to rat others out for reasons like "suspicious behavior." America will then manufacture a reason to either prolong the existing wars or start new ones, and her existing population will have no choice but to be part of the war machine or rot in jails or FEMA camps.
Do any of you live in San Diego? They blamed a recent rolling blackout (most cell service was also down) on some hapless technician in Arizona, but the reality was that they were doing a dry run of a inconvenient but harmless "false flag" terrorist attack or rehearsing how they would take the advantage in a martial law situation after a popular revolt.
Let's go over this one time: - 9/11, Amerika's Reichstag fire, Amerika goes to war in the middle-East, Amerika expands its domestic Gestapo apparatus and restricts free speech, Amerika destroys economy to limit options so more people become troops/security, Amerika continues war and starts more wars, Amerika outlaws free speech and the internet, popular revolt begins and is crushed by hired paramilitary goons, Amerika expands its war into Iran and compromises other Arab states along the way crushing all resistance, Amerika begins war with China and Russia is forced to intervene on China's behalf.
World War III, baby. Amerika is the new Nazi Germany.
I bet that it's a buncha kids dreaming of some kinda home automation and/or media control system. No self-respecting DARPA project associate would ask such a queer question. They are correct in catering to the affluent, as that is the only logical career choice in America.
Here's a tip, kids - Instead of hacking together something from scratch, just buy a Samsung Galaxy tab and work from there. Problem solved.
He's Japanese. Lots of digits, small dick. I bet daddy lets him drive the Porsche around town when he's not busy neckbearding it up with his servers in the family house's basement.
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Thank you, thank you. Please make note of the tip jar, my kids need to eat tonight.
As a very drunk and obnoxiously self-indulgent doctor of Anthropology, I officially declare that this discussion is known in 4chan.random( ) parlance as a "faggot thread." I was going to mention the "Rock Hudson" analog, but several astute participants beat me to it. As a straight man sympathetic to the plight of the gays, I agree that anal sex is a loose-loose situation. Far too many people(of both genders) do not clean their buttholes properly, often shitting and not showering before the anticipated anal sex act. It was that same situation which had turned me away from giving anal sex when I performed my first cornhole in my friend's bedroom at at age fiifteen. She was a big girl, butt her stench was wafting up to my nose.
Do you know what comes out of that hole? Please, please - it doesn't matter what gender you are. Just please clean your rectum. Are you anticipating receiving anal sex later? Please shower and cleanse your rectum at least knuckle-deep. If you are really, really poor you can go into a McDonald's bathroom and wipe until there's no brown or yellow on the paper. Having a clean ass is important in many cultures - see that long pinky fingernail on the hands of Arabs and some Asians running those Mom-and-Pop liquor stores? That means that they have a clean ass and don't hate themselves like most women do.
It is the personal experience of myself and all of my totally-hetero male friends that women have not been properly taught to clean their assholes. One friend even referred to the smell of his girl's butthole as "cinnamon-like," causing us to play Neil Young's "Cinnamon girl" whilst howling with laughter(she says that she "doesn't get it" and walks out for her 20th smoke of the day). Why, ladies? Is your butthole too dainty to be properly cleaned? Do ladies fear their buttholes, or just assume that they smell like roses because everything else they do smells like roses?
The most attractive girl I ever boned was flawless on the outside, but when all the clothes came off her pits stank like a mold colony and "down there" she smelled a little, well, could use a little Ivory.
Yes, they are altruistic morons.
March on the Capitol. March on Wall Street, you look like greedy morons who don't care about anything other than your own trust funds. March on the capitol, we have real problems to solve. Grow a fucking pair and encroach on the Capitol. I'll join you if you grow your own pair. Sissies.