To use a car analogy -- it's like driving the car at idle speed without actually hitting the gas pedal.
It's most noticeable if you drive a big truck with an automatic transmission -- just shift it into "D" and coast along at.2 miles per hour. You could also do it with a manual transmission, but you'd need very fine control of your clutch-foot.
But if you put on the tinfoil hat, Australia could be a test-bed for Apple trying to determine how much price-gouging* the masses will put up with before they say, "fuck it."
* And the total raping of civil liberties and establishment of a corporate-sponsored police state in general, but who's counting?
I hope one day when you fire 500 people so that your can afford a new personal jet each employee comes up and takes turn punching you in your fat face.
Agreed. While I was with a past employer, they had a massive surprise layoff in the production department. They had to hire security because of all the threats they got from angry but hard-working married people.
My own boss, in the repair department, later gave me a month's warning in advance that I was going to be laid off. He even let me take the rest of the day off that day, for pay. The repair department was to be outsourced across the country so we could get faster turnaround, and it was now my job to train the people who were taking over for me.
I was elated to have been treated so well. I busted my ass hard for the company and was extended 4 times before I was finally laid off.
Nah. The whole point of this is that people like not having intimate connections as in face-to-face conversation. Let's 'em get away with being selfish, apathetic, condescending and whatnot.
Nowdays everything is chickenshittedly done by proxy. Why need the balls to do something as simple as look into a person's eyes beforehand?
It's really cute that our government "leaks" this FUD campaign because they don't have the balls to admit through diplomacy that they do indeed have a problem with sucking the dicks of the Arabian and Jewish lobbyists.
1-A. Any galaxy younger than two billion years or galaxies with a diamater less than ten-thousand light-years will be considered to be underage, requiring mandatory filtration, per Australian law.
No, it makes me pleased, because a whole lot of humans are going to be killed in the upcoming resource wars. Humans are scum and I hate every last one of the motherfuckers. The less there are on the planet, the happier of a man I am. Serves 'em right for being arrogant greedy scum.
I can only hope with fingers crossed that Arabia, and China, and the Southern United states will not survive the war.
We are in a world without precedent. While I share girlintrainings's skepticism and understand the point, I don't write off the capability of citizens to make the world and the government a better place.
THE WEB IS 17 YEARS OLD. Give it time.
Her point exactly. Would you say that world governments as a whole are heading towards less or more restriction of the internet? Yeah,Ithoughtso.
And much of the censorship apparatus is being manufactured by...yep, you guessed it...Americans.
In the state of California, certain auto mechanics must be paid twice the minimum wage if they are required to use their own tools:
TITLE 8. INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS...DIVISION 1...CHAPTER 5...GROUP 2...ARTICLE 4...WAGE ORDER 4-2001, EFFECTIVE 1-1-2001...
(B) When tools or equipment are required by the employer or are necessary to the performance of a job, such tools and equipment shall be provided and maintained by the employer, except that an employee whose wages are at least two (2) times the minimum wage provided herein may be required to provide and maintain hand tools and equipment customarily required by the trade or craft. This subsection (B) shall not apply to apprentices regularly indentured under the State Division of Apprenticeship Standards.
I know this because a buddy of mine, after being denied the raise he was promised, is meeting with a labor lawyer next week.
Hey, at least the GNAA -- er -- Goatse Security didn't steal 1.5 million dollars worth of free information by "hacking" a public library computer with that malware called Perl that was already installed on it.
Sometimes it's hard to be mad at the FBI, though -- they're just like the bumbling idiots who play them on TV -- except that the ones on TV are at least somewhat lovable. Actually, I'm kinda surprised, because I thought they just trolled Torrents and Limewire all day looking for CP and other i.p.'s to refer to the RIAA's litigation machine. Actually, I'm not at all surprised, because they wouldn't have cared if it weren't their spying buddy ATT.
No, that was me complaining about how I was modded troll.
But it turns out that my troll mods may have been deserved: I spelled it out like Gay Niggers Association of America instead of Gay Nigger Association of America, which is correct.
My bad, guys. Keep up the good work. I'd join your public affairs department if I weren't so damn busy these days...
I find it hard to believe that they're gouging the shit out of students while the regents are getting double-dipped retirement pensions, sweet real-estate deals, and other million-dollar perks. Just a case of the greedy being mad at their being out-greeded. Fuck the both of them, I say.
Eventually, commercial planes will be unpiloted - pilots are expensive.
...and drunk.
But seriously, autonomous or remote-piloted vehicles can't be hijacked. It would also make being a pilot a more bearable because a pilot could simple hand over the controls to another pilot after an 8-hour shift and go home to his family. That would get rid of things like pilot fatigue and allow them to have normal circadian rhythms in tune with their local time zone.
As for government spying -- go ahead, film me fucking in my swimming pool. I'm an exhibitionist.
Which is funny because not a lot of people realize that one of the bands used by 802.11, 2.4 GHz, is the same frequency your magnetron uses to quickly excite watery bags of meat.
This is such a disaster. Someone please provide links: I know that even now after the Exxon Valdez spill in Alaska there is ongoing environmental damage and hardship for the people who live in the area. From that example, speculate on what will happen in the Gulf.
Problem with old-skool trolls is that it's often difficult to figure out if they're actually trolling or whether Slashdot's readership actually needs the verbal equivalent of a laugh track to decide how to feel and what to say.
Sometimes I think that all of Slashdot's 2-million "users" are really just one guy behind the curtain. I know it's tough, but couldn't you at least try, guy? Maybe even hire a second person when the economy picks up.
Yeah, we're fucked. Which is why you have to enjoy living a modest life under the radar, dying with the smug satisfaction of being the next Tom Wolfe or Jon Stewart, using your intelligence to quantify human stupidity.
Tom Wolfe reportedly likes George W. Bush. Tom Wolfe also stated that, "The human comedy never runs out of material."
In Asian cultures, aversion of gaze is a sign of respect. You don't want to stare an Asian boss down.
In Arabic cultures, you don't want to make eye contact with anybody's wives. Introductions to Arab wives are a brief nod, if even that, and you might as well pretend they don't exist afterward.
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To use a car analogy -- it's like driving the car at idle speed without actually hitting the gas pedal.
.2 miles per hour. You could also do it with a manual transmission, but you'd need very fine control of your clutch-foot.
It's most noticeable if you drive a big truck with an automatic transmission -- just shift it into "D" and coast along at
They want to make sure that you can lie convincingly...
Or that you actually were a good boy, so you'd be more likely to obey whatever daddy NSA tells you to do.
But if you put on the tinfoil hat, Australia could be a test-bed for Apple trying to determine how much price-gouging* the masses will put up with before they say, "fuck it."
* And the total raping of civil liberties and establishment of a corporate-sponsored police state in general, but who's counting?
Agreed. While I was with a past employer, they had a massive surprise layoff in the production department. They had to hire security because of all the threats they got from angry but hard-working married people.
My own boss, in the repair department, later gave me a month's warning in advance that I was going to be laid off. He even let me take the rest of the day off that day, for pay. The repair department was to be outsourced across the country so we could get faster turnaround, and it was now my job to train the people who were taking over for me.
I was elated to have been treated so well. I busted my ass hard for the company and was extended 4 times before I was finally laid off.
What gives, guys?
Have you too been haxxored by the mighty GNAA?
Nah. The whole point of this is that people like not having intimate connections as in face-to-face conversation. Let's 'em get away with being selfish, apathetic, condescending and whatnot.
Nowdays everything is chickenshittedly done by proxy. Why need the balls to do something as simple as look into a person's eyes beforehand?
You, sir, are a troll. If you had a clearance you'd know that the info is either banal or humiliating to the U.S.
It's really cute that our government "leaks" this FUD campaign because they don't have the balls to admit through diplomacy that they do indeed have a problem with sucking the dicks of the Arabian and Jewish lobbyists.
1-A. Any galaxy younger than two billion years or galaxies with a diamater less than ten-thousand light-years will be considered to be underage, requiring mandatory filtration, per Australian law.
No, it makes me pleased, because a whole lot of humans are going to be killed in the upcoming resource wars. Humans are scum and I hate every last one of the motherfuckers. The less there are on the planet, the happier of a man I am. Serves 'em right for being arrogant greedy scum.
I can only hope with fingers crossed that Arabia, and China, and the Southern United states will not survive the war.
Her point exactly. Would you say that world governments as a whole are heading towards less or more restriction of the internet? Yeah, I thought so.
And much of the censorship apparatus is being manufactured by...yep, you guessed it...Americans.
I know this because a buddy of mine, after being denied the raise he was promised, is meeting with a labor lawyer next week.
You sound like a faggot.
inb4 404
Hey, at least the GNAA -- er -- Goatse Security didn't steal 1.5 million dollars worth of free information by "hacking" a public library computer with that malware called Perl that was already installed on it.
Sometimes it's hard to be mad at the FBI, though -- they're just like the bumbling idiots who play them on TV -- except that the ones on TV are at least somewhat lovable. Actually, I'm kinda surprised, because I thought they just trolled Torrents and Limewire all day looking for CP and other i.p.'s to refer to the RIAA's litigation machine. Actually, I'm not at all surprised, because they wouldn't have cared if it weren't their spying buddy ATT.
No, that was me complaining about how I was modded troll.
But it turns out that my troll mods may have been deserved: I spelled it out like Gay Niggers Association of America instead of Gay Nigger Association of America, which is correct.
My bad, guys. Keep up the good work. I'd join your public affairs department if I weren't so damn busy these days...
For those of you who don't get it, Goatse Security is a division of the great Gay Niggers Association of America.
I'm not fucking joking.
Additionally, this may be a Slashdot first: The GNAA first post is actually the article itself.
Looks like poetic justice to me.
I find it hard to believe that they're gouging the shit out of students while the regents are getting double-dipped retirement pensions, sweet real-estate deals, and other million-dollar perks. Just a case of the greedy being mad at their being out-greeded. Fuck the both of them, I say.
But seriously, autonomous or remote-piloted vehicles can't be hijacked. It would also make being a pilot a more bearable because a pilot could simple hand over the controls to another pilot after an 8-hour shift and go home to his family. That would get rid of things like pilot fatigue and allow them to have normal circadian rhythms in tune with their local time zone.
As for government spying -- go ahead, film me fucking in my swimming pool. I'm an exhibitionist.
In Short, the staff who make the creative decisions never actually played the fucking games.
Maybe there was one time they got it right: The first-person scene in Doom.
Which is funny because not a lot of people realize that one of the bands used by 802.11, 2.4 GHz, is the same frequency your magnetron uses to quickly excite watery bags of meat.
Problem with old-skool trolls is that it's often difficult to figure out if they're actually trolling or whether Slashdot's readership actually needs the verbal equivalent of a laugh track to decide how to feel and what to say.
Sometimes I think that all of Slashdot's 2-million "users" are really just one guy behind the curtain. I know it's tough, but couldn't you at least try, guy? Maybe even hire a second person when the economy picks up.
Yeah, we're fucked. Which is why you have to enjoy living a modest life under the radar, dying with the smug satisfaction of being the next Tom Wolfe or Jon Stewart, using your intelligence to quantify human stupidity.
Tom Wolfe reportedly likes George W. Bush. Tom Wolfe also stated that, "The human comedy never runs out of material."
In Asian cultures, aversion of gaze is a sign of respect. You don't want to stare an Asian boss down.
In Arabic cultures, you don't want to make eye contact with anybody's wives. Introductions to Arab wives are a brief nod, if even that, and you might as well pretend they don't exist afterward.
Must be the same genuises who designed the EFF NSA shirt.
Can you spot the AT&T logo?