Agreed. Nowadays, such a car makes more sense - kinda like the Original Volkswagens did, except without the National Socialist connotations. A simple, modular, more efficient approach with more user-friendly long-term maintenance in mind would would work wonders for this country. Those of you who believe textbooks are a racket (changing new editions every year etc.) ain't seen nothin' yet compared to the currentauto parts racket.
Go to a local Starbucks with a drive-in and see the disgusting sows, all with ridiculously large SUVs, at least 3 kids each, with integrated TVs. The line of cars in the drive-in is backed around the block, and yet they could just go inside and be served immediately. The SUVs' drivers are all females who are either obese or anorexic. And they're all ordering extra-jumbo caramel Ralph Macchios for themselves and their children.
I posted that from a bar, using a Mac(it wasn't a gay bar, but apparently Macs are in style everywhere now). OSX has its own autocorrect algorithm, and it's their way or the highway. I didn't pay attention to the autocorrect when I submitted the post.
My original post was about how Dying Fetus is a good band. Somehow the Mac autocorrect feature misinterpreted my words.
Who the hell here uses Windows as their primary internet-facing OS? As a secondary OS for gaming or all the other shit Linux can't handle, it's fine, but home users who continue to use Windows as their primary internet-facing OS should be smacked in their mouths with a rolled-up newspaper.
It's funny how the curmudgeons will quickly adapt with smiling faces to OSX from Windows because they paid a lot of money for the pretty device it runs on, but will bitch and moan after a Linux install because the icon is on the wrong side or the start menu is now at the top.
I'm not totally knockin' Windows, my employer is a Microsoft-friendly shop and has the staff and budget to deploy real security solutions. That means I get Office and Visual Studio, both of which let me get shit done quick, even if I'm stupid enough to click on the duck and the monkey.
My friends and I weren't that rich, but we had a ritual of pooling our monies together, dividing it evenly amongst ourselves, and having nonstop Mortal Kombat II matches(I got so sick of the cheap assholes who always played as sub-zero - the same assholes who always played as Ken in Street Fighter II).
The funniest quarter-wasting moment I've ever seen was my friend getting his ass kicked at Sengoku. The same samurai(not even a boss) kicked 5 dollars out of his ass, and he told me to get more quarters as he was losing his temper at the game. I got him more quarters and he finally knocked the sword out of the samurai's hand(which is itself comedic because the samurai looks back and forth at both his empty hands), but then the samurai kicked two more dollars of quarters out of his ass while he was screaming obscenities at the game.
The most underrated game of that era had to be Midway's Total Carnage, a parody of Gulf War I. From the Wikipedia:
In Total Carnage, an evil Middle Eastern dictator named General Akhboob closes off his country to the rest of the world following a war in 1999. Hundreds of reporters flocked to the zone in hopes of getting a real scoop. Unfortunately for them, one of the reporters discovers that there's more than baby milk being made at the 'Baby Milk Factory'.
General Akhboob then captures the reporter, as well as all the remaining reporters in his country. It turns out that General Akhboob has been building an army of mutants and a stockpile of chemical weapons. He's also holding several American reporters and other civilians captive. It is up to the Doomsday Squad, composed of Captain Carnage (Player 1) and Major Mayhem (Player 2), to invade Akhboob's base, wipe out his forces, destroy the mutants, rescue all the hostages and capture Akhboob.
When I was a kid, there were still a few arcades which had at least a few pinball games alongside the Street Fighter II's and NEo-Geos, and some of them were pretty bitchin,' like Funhouse and Slugfest which had backstories and were enhanced by digitized audio and scrolling LED screens.
In the case of funhouse, for example, Rudy the dummy occasionally talks. If you hit him with his mouth closed, he says, "ow!" and one of the objectives is to hit the ball in his mouth while he's talking or snoring(part of the plot is the passage of time, and when it gets late, he goes to sleep and snores).
Still, mobile porn is pathetic. I don't have a problem with porn in general, in fact, I do enjoy watching the occasional black cock with the dimensions of a 24 oz. can of Miller pulling a petite white or Asian inside out every now and then.
But mobile porn is kinda creepy. People who enjoy mobile porn strike me as the kind of people who beat off in the bathroom stalls at work because they can't wait to get home to rub one off. And the people who watch mobile porn also like to show it to their friends, as if trying to start a circle-jerk. No thanks.
Horseshit detector clicking rapidly. You may gain credibility, however, by describing to us your socioeconomic background and (approximate) age.
We're not talking about Aspergers, the highest-functioning and probably most abused disability diagnosis aside of ADD (shit, I feel ADD right now. Can I get some Adderall and have an extra 4 hours to take that test? It's the new affirmative action! )
We're discussing pure autism, and for somebody who claims to have a remarkably high IQ, you're pretty ignorant and have no personality or style. You reek of a pseudo-intellectual who can use 4-syllable words. But you're not a special snowflake, and your disability and/or parents' money will get you into that school of choice.
In the September 2011 issue of Wired that rests happily on the top of my shitter, there is a description of a paper written by Economist Paul Krugman called The Theory of Interstellar Trade, which states that empires cannot work on a galactic scale due to the fact that round trips of several hundred years are likely, even at speeds close to the speed of light. Food spoils. Natural resources aren't worth the energy it takes to transport them. Colonies can't be governed.
The paper ignores other sci-fi contructs like wormholes and hyperspace, which are considered Bantha poodoo.
I know that this is the wrong discussion for mentioning this, but the activists in that case were a bunch of misguided weenies desperately seeking validation. We can expect to see more and more misguided tattle-tales wasting their time when they could be tackling real issues like police brutality.
I say this because, as somebody who likes to cull the populations of vermin species with the aid of airguns and small-caliber rifles, pigeons are like flies. So are wild rabbits. And common squirrels and chipmunks will also likely not become extinct anytime soon. Those hunters would have saved an awful lot of cars from being shit on. Hell, my friends and I would sit with BB guns in the bushes in a small backyard, pretending to be hunters, dropping the pigeons(and the occasional crow) from the power line above. we filled our neighbors' backyards full of bird corpses.
Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine had a good piece to say about it. Since I can't find it, I'll paraphrase it for you all:
" When you go into the desert with a rifle, you have respect for the cacti. They stand tall and proud, some of them have been there for over 100 years. They're like the wise old men of the desert, you respect 'em. But jackrabbits, man, the motherfuckers are like flies. You can shoot 'em all day long. "
I used to think of eugenics as being cruel, but I've started to sympathize with first poster after having lived next door to a family with an autistic kid. The kid spent the whole day staring silently into a corner and spent all night in very audible screaming fits. Their burden became their unwilling neighbors' burden.
My friend's family was also at the mercy of their extremely well-built and violent retard son. Aside from almost drowning his brother in the backyard pool(a story I mentioned here as AC), he flashed everybody at his brother's birthday party, shot up his whole house with a BB gun, he tried to rape his own mom after getting into the liquor cabinet. They were an otherwise-perfect, well-off family.
Sanctity of life, indeed. "If the fetus is a Downs, grip it out by the crown" is my motto.
Yup, my grandma had a ranch and boarded horses for a living before she passed away.
Stallions aren't reasonable like men are. You get a few men in with a few women and the men'll at least bargain on which woman each is gonna get. No so with stallions, you put even equal parts stallion in with equal parts mare and you're gonna have a lot of head-jerking, stomping, risking possible injury.
You gotta read a horse's body language, their ears. A horse may be fine with you, but they will dominate and be disobedient to other riders until they break 'em. Horses aren't cats. These are large animals, symbols of pure strength and stamina, that'll kick your jaw off and go off running.
Having spent a lot of time on a horse ranch in my youth, I learned how to have the most fun with horses: wait until they piss, so their penises are dropped, and shoot 'em in their swingin' dicks with a BB gun from outside the corral. Doesn't cause damage and leads to much whoopin' and hollerin' as the horse takes off. Cap the night off with some of granny's old mint schnapps (at age 13) and good times were had for all.
It's possible Google is just really incompetent over all these "oopsies", but they sure try to represent themselves as a company with above-average engineers. It has to be one or the other.
I'll be an annoying Philosophy 101 kid and state right off the bat that's a false dichotomy.
Anyway, anybody who's worked in the tech sector(or read enough Dilbert, or both) knows that even the "above-average" engineers are boneheads. I'll give you a few real-life examples I have encountered - an engineer who though it would be a good idea to couple zinc anodes to a titanium plate to be deployed under the sea, the engineer who didn't overdesign a power circuit which resulted in exploding power transistors, the engineer whose published programs are riddled with misspellings, the engineer who didn't design for standard industry sizes resulting in having to stretch gaskets to get them to fit, the multitude of engineers who don't comment their code except for their initials at the tops of the source files, and the list goes on and on.
I have no criminal record, but I have been pulled over and followed by cops. I have been pulled over to secondary at DHS checkpoints and had my car torn apart while they looked for contraband, only for them to find nothing and try to "bargain" with me and get me to incriminate myself on baseless charges to inflate their numbers.
You, sir, are totally full of shit and out of touch with reality. Or you live in a state that doesn't matter, like Montana or one of the Dakotas.
Come down to California and try to drive across an interstate highway. You may not be "arrested" per se, but you will be detained and your personal effects be searched...all because a low-rent goon fed the right hand-signal to a well-trained dog at a blatantly unnecessary highway checkpoint.
" GSM cellular networks leak enough location data to give third-parties secret access to cellphone users' whereabouts, according to new University of Minnesota research. "
Then it closes with,
"The research was funded in part by the National Science Foundation and Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology."
The paper(.PDF) was authored by Denis Foo Kune, John Koelndorfer, Nicholas Hopper, and Yongdae Kim. Now read the PDF. Does it sound kinda funny to you(a native English speaker)? Perhaps Kune and Kim should have let Nicholas, or at least John, write the paper.
Now, I'm not trolling, I just believe that it makes the most sense for native speakers to write for their target countries. Eloquence is academic, and the western version of this paper has UMinn and the names of two caucasians on it.
Another method which (I assume) addresses the problem is running a more full-featured BIOS that could operate the "basic" applications like web browsers and skype without having to load a full-fledged OS.
You have essentially instant-on access to the most basic popular applications, and then boot to a real operating system when you have to edit that film or play that game.
Toshibas(and probably others) had the ability to play audio CDs from within the BIOS way back in 2003 when I was fixing laptops for a living. Smart BIOS's are the next natural step.
Hey now, as much as I hate HR, I frequently see engineers playing WoW on company time. You know the ones - Hot Wheels T-shirts, Renaissance-fair rejects, educated manchildren.
I'm no tattle-tale, but it frosts me to no end when all of the drawings and procedures with their names on them are out of date and I need their help, only to have them get back to me days or even weeks later because they were "too busy."
At least HR pretends to shuffle stacks of papers every so often.
Yes, that. Sign up with a new account and compartmentalize your activities appropriately.
In other words, make your profile private and add only the co-workers that you have to. Discuss only work-related activities. If a co-worker mouths off about the party last night or tries to message you about stuff unrelated to work, don't respond to them online and walk to their cube with a "don't be a dumbass" warning.
Most importantly, if the above are not already rules in place, then ask that they be made rules. You can say it's for "security" reasons and they'll eat it right up.
However, I don't have to worry about any of that because I don't social network in private, I don't work for a company with such asinine policies, and I don't do any hanging out with coworkers after work(other than the occasional post-work happy hour with a 2-drink cutoff).
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Agreed. Nowadays, such a car makes more sense - kinda like the Original Volkswagens did, except without the National Socialist connotations. A simple, modular, more efficient approach with more user-friendly long-term maintenance in mind would would work wonders for this country. Those of you who believe textbooks are a racket (changing new editions every year etc.) ain't seen nothin' yet compared to the currentauto parts racket.
Go to a local Starbucks with a drive-in and see the disgusting sows, all with ridiculously large SUVs, at least 3 kids each, with integrated TVs. The line of cars in the drive-in is backed around the block, and yet they could just go inside and be served immediately. The SUVs' drivers are all females who are either obese or anorexic. And they're all ordering extra-jumbo caramel Ralph Macchios for themselves and their children.
What a fucking fag-ass you are. Of course, Timothy is pro-JIDF so he will ban me (again, like he did last night) for posting this comment.
When the Kikes get too big for their britches, the majority of starving, jobless Americans will not surrender their few remaining resources to Israel.
Wikileaks for the win. Destroy-Iran-for-Israel rhetoric for the lose.
Sorry, fellas.
I posted that from a bar, using a Mac(it wasn't a gay bar, but apparently Macs are in style everywhere now). OSX has its own autocorrect algorithm, and it's their way or the highway. I didn't pay attention to the autocorrect when I submitted the post.
My original post was about how Dying Fetus is a good band. Somehow the Mac autocorrect feature misinterpreted my words.
Apologies to the offended homosexuals.
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Who the hell here uses Windows as their primary internet-facing OS? As a secondary OS for gaming or all the other shit Linux can't handle, it's fine, but home users who continue to use Windows as their primary internet-facing OS should be smacked in their mouths with a rolled-up newspaper.
It's funny how the curmudgeons will quickly adapt with smiling faces to OSX from Windows because they paid a lot of money for the pretty device it runs on, but will bitch and moan after a Linux install because the icon is on the wrong side or the start menu is now at the top.
I'm not totally knockin' Windows, my employer is a Microsoft-friendly shop and has the staff and budget to deploy real security solutions. That means I get Office and Visual Studio, both of which let me get shit done quick, even if I'm stupid enough to click on the duck and the monkey.
People like you should be smacked in the mouth with rolled-up newspapers.
TOASTY!
The funniest quarter-wasting moment I've ever seen was my friend getting his ass kicked at Sengoku. The same samurai(not even a boss) kicked 5 dollars out of his ass, and he told me to get more quarters as he was losing his temper at the game. I got him more quarters and he finally knocked the sword out of the samurai's hand(which is itself comedic because the samurai looks back and forth at both his empty hands), but then the samurai kicked two more dollars of quarters out of his ass while he was screaming obscenities at the game.
The most underrated game of that era had to be Midway's Total Carnage, a parody of Gulf War I. From the Wikipedia:
In Total Carnage, an evil Middle Eastern dictator named General Akhboob closes off his country to the rest of the world following a war in 1999. Hundreds of reporters flocked to the zone in hopes of getting a real scoop. Unfortunately for them, one of the reporters discovers that there's more than baby milk being made at the 'Baby Milk Factory'.
General Akhboob then captures the reporter, as well as all the remaining reporters in his country. It turns out that General Akhboob has been building an army of mutants and a stockpile of chemical weapons. He's also holding several American reporters and other civilians captive. It is up to the Doomsday Squad, composed of Captain Carnage (Player 1) and Major Mayhem (Player 2), to invade Akhboob's base, wipe out his forces, destroy the mutants, rescue all the hostages and capture Akhboob.
When I was a kid, there were still a few arcades which had at least a few pinball games alongside the Street Fighter II's and NEo-Geos, and some of them were pretty bitchin,' like Funhouse and Slugfest which had backstories and were enhanced by digitized audio and scrolling LED screens.
In the case of funhouse, for example, Rudy the dummy occasionally talks. If you hit him with his mouth closed, he says, "ow!" and one of the objectives is to hit the ball in his mouth while he's talking or snoring(part of the plot is the passage of time, and when it gets late, he goes to sleep and snores).
Still, mobile porn is pathetic. I don't have a problem with porn in general, in fact, I do enjoy watching the occasional black cock with the dimensions of a 24 oz. can of Miller pulling a petite white or Asian inside out every now and then.
But mobile porn is kinda creepy. People who enjoy mobile porn strike me as the kind of people who beat off in the bathroom stalls at work because they can't wait to get home to rub one off. And the people who watch mobile porn also like to show it to their friends, as if trying to start a circle-jerk. No thanks.
Horseshit detector clicking rapidly. You may gain credibility, however, by describing to us your socioeconomic background and (approximate) age.
We're not talking about Aspergers, the highest-functioning and probably most abused disability diagnosis aside of ADD (shit, I feel ADD right now. Can I get some Adderall and have an extra 4 hours to take that test? It's the new affirmative action! )
We're discussing pure autism, and for somebody who claims to have a remarkably high IQ, you're pretty ignorant and have no personality or style. You reek of a pseudo-intellectual who can use 4-syllable words. But you're not a special snowflake, and your disability and/or parents' money will get you into that school of choice.
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In the September 2011 issue of Wired that rests happily on the top of my shitter, there is a description of a paper written by Economist Paul Krugman called The Theory of Interstellar Trade, which states that empires cannot work on a galactic scale due to the fact that round trips of several hundred years are likely, even at speeds close to the speed of light. Food spoils. Natural resources aren't worth the energy it takes to transport them. Colonies can't be governed.
The paper ignores other sci-fi contructs like wormholes and hyperspace, which are considered Bantha poodoo.
I say this because, as somebody who likes to cull the populations of vermin species with the aid of airguns and small-caliber rifles, pigeons are like flies. So are wild rabbits. And common squirrels and chipmunks will also likely not become extinct anytime soon. Those hunters would have saved an awful lot of cars from being shit on. Hell, my friends and I would sit with BB guns in the bushes in a small backyard, pretending to be hunters, dropping the pigeons(and the occasional crow) from the power line above. we filled our neighbors' backyards full of bird corpses.
Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine had a good piece to say about it. Since I can't find it, I'll paraphrase it for you all:
" When you go into the desert with a rifle, you have respect for the cacti. They stand tall and proud, some of them have been there for over 100 years. They're like the wise old men of the desert, you respect 'em. But jackrabbits, man, the motherfuckers are like flies. You can shoot 'em all day long. "
I used to think of eugenics as being cruel, but I've started to sympathize with first poster after having lived next door to a family with an autistic kid. The kid spent the whole day staring silently into a corner and spent all night in very audible screaming fits. Their burden became their unwilling neighbors' burden.
My friend's family was also at the mercy of their extremely well-built and violent retard son. Aside from almost drowning his brother in the backyard pool(a story I mentioned here as AC), he flashed everybody at his brother's birthday party, shot up his whole house with a BB gun, he tried to rape his own mom after getting into the liquor cabinet. They were an otherwise-perfect, well-off family.
Sanctity of life, indeed. "If the fetus is a Downs, grip it out by the crown" is my motto.
It is implied that a junior rider is paired with a well-tempered horse that knows its environment.
Yup, my grandma had a ranch and boarded horses for a living before she passed away.
Stallions aren't reasonable like men are. You get a few men in with a few women and the men'll at least bargain on which woman each is gonna get. No so with stallions, you put even equal parts stallion in with equal parts mare and you're gonna have a lot of head-jerking, stomping, risking possible injury.
You gotta read a horse's body language, their ears. A horse may be fine with you, but they will dominate and be disobedient to other riders until they break 'em. Horses aren't cats. These are large animals, symbols of pure strength and stamina, that'll kick your jaw off and go off running.
Having spent a lot of time on a horse ranch in my youth, I learned how to have the most fun with horses: wait until they piss, so their penises are dropped, and shoot 'em in their swingin' dicks with a BB gun from outside the corral. Doesn't cause damage and leads to much whoopin' and hollerin' as the horse takes off. Cap the night off with some of granny's old mint schnapps (at age 13) and good times were had for all.
She's Italian? All this time I thought she was a mustachioed Jewish transvestite.
Why do the men I love always lie to me?
This tiny bit of hardware hidden under the shell shaped like a classic Soviet F1 hand grenade
Because only violent communists believe in the free flow of information.
But seriously, They'd probably be better off using a Picotux to forward traffic.
In before wiretapping laws...
It's possible Google is just really incompetent over all these "oopsies", but they sure try to represent themselves as a company with above-average engineers. It has to be one or the other.
I'll be an annoying Philosophy 101 kid and state right off the bat that's a false dichotomy.
Anyway, anybody who's worked in the tech sector(or read enough Dilbert, or both) knows that even the "above-average" engineers are boneheads. I'll give you a few real-life examples I have encountered - an engineer who though it would be a good idea to couple zinc anodes to a titanium plate to be deployed under the sea, the engineer who didn't overdesign a power circuit which resulted in exploding power transistors, the engineer whose published programs are riddled with misspellings, the engineer who didn't design for standard industry sizes resulting in having to stretch gaskets to get them to fit, the multitude of engineers who don't comment their code except for their initials at the tops of the source files, and the list goes on and on.
Much like the gays with their sexuality.
Hey, wait a minute...
I have no criminal record, but I have been pulled over and followed by cops. I have been pulled over to secondary at DHS checkpoints and had my car torn apart while they looked for contraband, only for them to find nothing and try to "bargain" with me and get me to incriminate myself on baseless charges to inflate their numbers.
You, sir, are totally full of shit and out of touch with reality. Or you live in a state that doesn't matter, like Montana or one of the Dakotas.
Come down to California and try to drive across an interstate highway. You may not be "arrested" per se, but you will be detained and your personal effects be searched...all because a low-rent goon fed the right hand-signal to a well-trained dog at a blatantly unnecessary highway checkpoint.
" GSM cellular networks leak enough location data to give third-parties secret access to cellphone users' whereabouts, according to new University of Minnesota research. "
Then it closes with,
"The research was funded in part by the National Science Foundation and Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology."
The paper(.PDF) was authored by Denis Foo Kune, John Koelndorfer, Nicholas Hopper, and Yongdae Kim. Now read the PDF. Does it sound kinda funny to you(a native English speaker)? Perhaps Kune and Kim should have let Nicholas, or at least John, write the paper.
Now, I'm not trolling, I just believe that it makes the most sense for native speakers to write for their target countries. Eloquence is academic, and the western version of this paper has UMinn and the names of two caucasians on it.
Another method which (I assume) addresses the problem is running a more full-featured BIOS that could operate the "basic" applications like web browsers and skype without having to load a full-fledged OS.
You have essentially instant-on access to the most basic popular applications, and then boot to a real operating system when you have to edit that film or play that game.
Toshibas(and probably others) had the ability to play audio CDs from within the BIOS way back in 2003 when I was fixing laptops for a living. Smart BIOS's are the next natural step.
Hey now, as much as I hate HR, I frequently see engineers playing WoW on company time. You know the ones - Hot Wheels T-shirts, Renaissance-fair rejects, educated manchildren.
I'm no tattle-tale, but it frosts me to no end when all of the drawings and procedures with their names on them are out of date and I need their help, only to have them get back to me days or even weeks later because they were "too busy."
At least HR pretends to shuffle stacks of papers every so often.
Yes, that. Sign up with a new account and compartmentalize your activities appropriately.
In other words, make your profile private and add only the co-workers that you have to. Discuss only work-related activities. If a co-worker mouths off about the party last night or tries to message you about stuff unrelated to work, don't respond to them online and walk to their cube with a "don't be a dumbass" warning.
Most importantly, if the above are not already rules in place, then ask that they be made rules. You can say it's for "security" reasons and they'll eat it right up.
However, I don't have to worry about any of that because I don't social network in private, I don't work for a company with such asinine policies, and I don't do any hanging out with coworkers after work(other than the occasional post-work happy hour with a 2-drink cutoff).