Right. Taking away privacy is not necessary, in fact it's damn dehumanizing.
It's like being in a zoo, where you know everybody is pointing and laughing at you while you shit behind a wall of glass.
Imagine this: you're a soldier serving in Iraq or Afghanistan. You may be a colonel with 20 years of service or a lowly grunt with 2. You're a married man who obviously can't have sex, so you and your wife arrange to have a little private "pillow talk" over the phone. NSA agents pull up your private conversation for the "lulz", laughing their asses off at you even though you might die tomorrow for the very same government who is paying for them to watch you like a zoo exhibit and e-mail each other details of your sex life just as office workers do the latest jokes.
Sure, they're a big mega-evil corporation. Their mission is to get inside our heads and sell ads. But their success could be attributed to much more than savvy PR guys with headphones and rollerblades.
Unlike the others, Google actually innovates. Takes risks. Some ideas flop, others are hugely successful. Microsoft and Yahoo just keep turning out the same old shit because they are inert and unwilling to innovate. Sure, they add a feature to widget X or rebrand widget Y, but they have not created any new services. Microsoft in particular is puzzlingly suicidal -- the Zune, and that horrible ad campaign (thanks for wiggling your ass in my face, Bill, we know you have gazillions of dollars).
Most importantly, Google don't get greedy. For example, the ads in the middle of youtube videos. You can see when an ad will pop up and you can even skip past it if you want -- try doing that with pre-clip commercials on CNN.com. Google don't force you to do anything like the other companies do. They don't shove banner ads in your face when using MSN messenger. Google are huge, but they don't project greed. Google succeeds because it does not project control and does not try to strong-arm the user. Google lets the user come to it and use it on the user's own terms, and that happens with clever and seamless integration of its ads into other services. What Google does not try to do is strong-arm the user into using its shit by honking a clown horn in his/her face.
That said, I'll never use Chrome. FF, Opera, and derivatives all the way.
No way. Not unless Avatar was about one greedy industrialized race attacking another greedy industrialized race with the home-field advantage.
Avatar touched upon a variety of themes(MMORPG addiction, environmentalism, the Prime Directive, exploitation of other peoples, the overbearing influence of corporations and the military, etc.) I like to think of it as a general mind-expanding experience instead of a single specific story like Iraq even though there were references like "shock and awe" and "winning their hearts and minds".
Taken literally, the best comparison to Avatar's story would be to the conquering of tribal natives who had to respect the earth, they were grateful for a meal and didn't have the luxury of driving to the nearest McDonald's. There was one point in particular that was right on the money: "The planet dosen't give a shit who wins or loses -- she's just the equalizer." Environmental equalization as well as financial equalization are going to be very painful processes to humanity in general.
Exactly. The talking heads call it a "war on terror" and all the while it's our own government who tries to keep us afraid with colored charts and media scaremongering. Then some fucking moron tries to blow up a plane and ends up lighting his nuts on fire and the government agents have an excuse to further terrorize the citizens. They will continue to let the occasional bomber through every now and then, and the cycle will continue.
The whole DHS are a bunch of thugs. An ICE agent recently blew through a stop sign and killed 3 women. They're trying to blame it on his driving with tinted windows at night. Why would a run-of-the-mill GOV need tinted windows?!
First, plan in advance where you will actually do "it" since there is more preparation involved. The shower is a good place for the uninitiated, but the squeamish should not look down at the drain lest they suffer Norman Bates flashbacks.
It is easy to do it on a bed, but make sure that plenty of black towels (which don't stain red) are handy. Be sure to ensure that the the dropcloth(s) is(are) sufficiently thick so as not to allow the menstrual fluid to "bleed" into the bedspread. Mind the movement, it is easy to lose track of the dropcloth twisting and losing coverage.
Many women are insecure about their inner workings and are not open to period sex. To convince her to do it, you must tell her that she should not have to feel dirty about what comes naturally to her. Stick a finger or two into her, then suck it off your own fingers before licking your chops and telling her that she tastes wonderful.
Optional: using your fingers, paint stripes on your face like a warrior Indian Chief and yell, "Boobooboobooboo" while stopping your voice with your hand. She will giggle and decide to let you in.
Depending on where she is in her menstrual cycle, you may notice "chunks", which are blood clots. Do not be disgusted or alarmed. They are a natural result of the sloughing of the uterine lining and do not affect feel.
Be Gentle. She will be experiencing aches and pains and she will be sensitive. Period sex is totally awesome because it is much warmer and more lubricated, but move slowly and avoid biting her nipples. Period sex has been proven to reduce menstrual cramping when done right.
Menstrual fluid tastes like blood, but menstruation is often more subdued than typical bleeding. You need not worry about sickness while testing and playing with menstrual fluid, unless your partner has a sexually transmitted infection.
If you do not enjoy period sex, you are a disgrace to yourself and to your fellow men. Euthanize yourself immediately.
Any impact would be extremely detrimental to an area of thousands of square kilometres, but would be unlikely to have long-lasting global effects, such as the initiation of an impact winter.
Also, this. Looks like Russia has a lot more at stake then America does.
The dirty little secret is that the Y is not always unexpected, just too politically incorrect and dangerous to be released to the public.
Eh, so the scumbag may have been racist. Dosen't make the first 5/6 of his post any less true. In science, the experiment comes first. The troll is probably just disappointed that science didn't prove his racist views wrong, as well as advance his career and get him more funding.
Yep, it's sad. Eloquence has gone out of style. Being a man sucks in this day and age. People think a man is a weirdo or a fag if he reads books by the pool and uses words more than 4 syllables long.
It's an old argument. Anything can be mechanized - art, music, programming, writing, manufacturing, rolling joints - but if you want the good shit then you'd better make sure that there's a human behind it. There will always be a need for handcrafted stuff.
Everytime a nerd calls fractals "art", God kills a kitten.
You're closer to the truth than you realize. The same thing is going on in America as well - the limiting of abortion coverage in our healthcare bill, our pop-culture's fairly recent obsession with babies and breeding, antagonism towards Planned Parenthood.
Corporations want to have their cake and eat it too. They want to have a huge foreign pool of cheap labor, and they want to have a huge domestic pool of proletariat consumers and disposable warriors.
I'm a relative Linux noob coming from Cubase on Windows. Switching from Cubase to Ardour is a lot like switching from Photoshop to Gimp - Ardour is still pretty good, but it dosen't include any plugins and installing plugins is unnecessarily difficult. You can run VST plugins in Ardour at the cost of stability and a custom-compile. I had problems with installing the Ubuntu studio from the ISO (It's one of those primitive BIOS-style installs and different steps failed multiple times -- what the fuck?) so I installed vanilla 9.10 and apt-get'd Ubuntu-studio. I have no desire to try Cubase on WINE.
The Linux setup is much more modular. My Windows setup required only Cubase and a few of its plugins -- it was self-contained -- but my Linux setup involves setting up Jack, Ardour, and Hydrogen to work with each other(which is not difficult). I am currently having problems with on my laptop with a built-in mic because the mic's input is summed with the other input and there is no way to differentiate and disable the laptop mic without unsoldering the mic and shorting the leads. The setup works out of the box, but do not try to mess with the ALSA driver or you may bork your audio.
Hydrogen, the drum machine, can be synchronized with Ardour via Jack transport. In Cubase, you'd set the time signature(3/4 for example) via the transport bar and everything would be setup and synchronized. To set a 3/4 time signature in Hydrogen, you have to set size and the resolution to 4T - shit like that is proof that no musicians were involved in the development of it. Ardour is basically a glorifed WaveLab or Soundforge while Cubase is a whole production suite. I haven't yet tested my USB audio interface but I've read that it works with Ardour. I've got much more tinkering to do before I decide whether or not to go back to Cubase.
After saving the world, Duke becomes castrated in an unhappy marriage to Samus Aran and is forced to drift from bar to bar giving strippers handsome tips. The ability to drink beers and become intoxicated was borrowed from Deus Ex for a more realistic experience.
"Hello? have I reached the owner of this cellular phone? You mistakenly left it on the train, and I wanted to mail it back to you. A reward? No, that won't be necessary; the good deed is a reward in itself."
Hell no, bro. I finally transitioned to an all-Linux household after the release of the ultra-mature, ultra-stable Ubuntu 9.10. It worked wonders right out of the box. The only gripe I have about 9.10 is the default desktop wallpaper which is colored like tubgirl's whale-spout.
My 7 year old Dell Latitude D600 runs the compiz cube and with all the pretty window effects and dosen't even slow down until a skydome image or 3-d windows on cube rotate are added. All hardware is detected with the best drivers and there are no issues with hibernation. There's also no need for command-line boot options. It just works(tm).
Next up for Linux, media production software. What the fuck is up with Hydrogen and Ardour? Can't they get at least one real musician on their design staff?
If you can furnish proof that they haven't already, especially before Google did, I'll buy you a beer. After all, I didn't hear anything about Bing or Yahoo when the Michelle Obama monkey scandal broke.
Google's treatment of Foundem stifled our growth and constrained the development of our innovative search technology.
If Foundem was a search company worth their salt then they'd at least have an explanation as to how "The Man" was holdin' 'em down. Just sounds like a shill of another pissed-off advertising company who wasn't good enough to be bought out by Google. There are an awful lot of those out on Madison Avenue. As proof, I'll read to you a quote from the Oct 12, 2009 issue of The New Yorker magazine. The article begins on page 46 and depicts Page and Brin windsurfing:
As the C.O.O. of Viacom, Karamzin represented one of the world's largest media companies...Of more interest to Karamazin was the companie's advertising business...To turn this lucrative system over to over to a mechanized auction posed a serious threat...The Google executives thought Karmazin's method manipulated emotions and cheated advertisers...Karmazin looked at his Google hosts and proclaimed, only half in jest, "You're fucking with the magic!"
For three years, my company's vertical search and price-comparison site,
Foundem, was effectively "disappeared" from the Internet in this way.
Inability to explain why. Credibility of your article nullified. Samzenpus is trolling.
Because of its domination of the global search market and ability to penalize competitors
while placing its own services at the top of its search results, Google has a virtually
unassailable competitive advantage.
Google, a company based in America, has an autocomplete-style guessing algorithm which
showed "Michelle Obama monkey" as the first choice when one typed in "michelle". It was so
fair that they had to alter their own results and provide a disclaimer for the sake of
political correctness. Apparently that wasn't even the first time they'd dealt with that
situation. I'd say Google is fair until assholes like article author started bitching and
moaning.
Google's treatment of Foundem stifled our growth and constrained the development
of our innovative search technology.
Try teaming up with Metacrawler, they
are many times as powerful as google.
Even AdWords and AdSense, the phenomenally efficient economic engines behind
Google's meteoric success, are essentially borrowed inventions:
Yeah, Toyota also borrowed the wheel from somebody. It's only a matter of time until they're
sued in the East district of Texas.
Will it embrace search neutrality as the logical extension to net neutrality
that truly protects equal access to the Internet?
I dunno, will you tell me exactly why you feel you've been shortchanged by Google?
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Right. Taking away privacy is not necessary, in fact it's damn dehumanizing.
It's like being in a zoo, where you know everybody is pointing and laughing at you while you shit behind a wall of glass.
Imagine this: you're a soldier serving in Iraq or Afghanistan. You may be a colonel with 20 years of service or a lowly grunt with 2. You're a married man who obviously can't have sex, so you and your wife arrange to have a little private "pillow talk" over the phone. NSA agents pull up your private conversation for the "lulz", laughing their asses off at you even though you might die tomorrow for the very same government who is paying for them to watch you like a zoo exhibit and e-mail each other details of your sex life just as office workers do the latest jokes.
Fuck that, man.
Sure, they're a big mega-evil corporation. Their mission is to get inside our heads and sell ads. But their success could be attributed to much more than savvy PR guys with headphones and rollerblades.
Unlike the others, Google actually innovates. Takes risks. Some ideas flop, others are hugely successful. Microsoft and Yahoo just keep turning out the same old shit because they are inert and unwilling to innovate. Sure, they add a feature to widget X or rebrand widget Y, but they have not created any new services. Microsoft in particular is puzzlingly suicidal -- the Zune, and that horrible ad campaign (thanks for wiggling your ass in my face, Bill, we know you have gazillions of dollars).
Most importantly, Google don't get greedy. For example, the ads in the middle of youtube videos. You can see when an ad will pop up and you can even skip past it if you want -- try doing that with pre-clip commercials on CNN.com. Google don't force you to do anything like the other companies do. They don't shove banner ads in your face when using MSN messenger. Google are huge, but they don't project greed. Google succeeds because it does not project control and does not try to strong-arm the user. Google lets the user come to it and use it on the user's own terms, and that happens with clever and seamless integration of its ads into other services. What Google does not try to do is strong-arm the user into using its shit by honking a clown horn in his/her face. That said, I'll never use Chrome. FF, Opera, and derivatives all the way.
No way. Not unless Avatar was about one greedy industrialized race attacking another greedy industrialized race with the home-field advantage.
Avatar touched upon a variety of themes(MMORPG addiction, environmentalism, the Prime Directive, exploitation of other peoples, the overbearing influence of corporations and the military, etc.) I like to think of it as a general mind-expanding experience instead of a single specific story like Iraq even though there were references like "shock and awe" and "winning their hearts and minds".
Taken literally, the best comparison to Avatar's story would be to the conquering of tribal natives who had to respect the earth, they were grateful for a meal and didn't have the luxury of driving to the nearest McDonald's. There was one point in particular that was right on the money: "The planet dosen't give a shit who wins or loses -- she's just the equalizer." Environmental equalization as well as financial equalization are going to be very painful processes to humanity in general.
I fucked Jesus and the bitch loved it.
Also, the "virgin" Mary loved to fuck horses. Jesus was born in the very manger that Mary used to lie on before the horse entered her.
Also, Vestal Masturbation.
-- poor, confused Mac fanboy
Don't see any Linux vendors bragging about what a big extra "feature" GRUB is, and it does the same thing. Often more transparently.
TSA's mission is the gross violation of personal privacy. The man is perfect for the job!
Exactly. The talking heads call it a "war on terror" and all the while it's our own government who tries to keep us afraid with colored charts and media scaremongering. Then some fucking moron tries to blow up a plane and ends up lighting his nuts on fire and the government agents have an excuse to further terrorize the citizens. They will continue to let the occasional bomber through every now and then, and the cycle will continue.
The whole DHS are a bunch of thugs. An ICE agent recently blew through a stop sign and killed 3 women. They're trying to blame it on his driving with tinted windows at night. Why would a run-of-the-mill GOV need tinted windows?!
Also, this. Looks like Russia has a lot more at stake then America does.
( In before [citation needed] )
Eh, so the scumbag may have been racist. Dosen't make the first 5/6 of his post any less true. In science, the experiment comes first. The troll is probably just disappointed that science didn't prove his racist views wrong, as well as advance his career and get him more funding.
HehehehehHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAH!
Yep, it's sad. Eloquence has gone out of style. Being a man sucks in this day and age. People think a man is a weirdo or a fag if he reads books by the pool and uses words more than 4 syllables long.
It's an old argument. Anything can be mechanized - art, music, programming, writing, manufacturing, rolling joints - but if you want the good shit then you'd better make sure that there's a human behind it. There will always be a need for handcrafted stuff.
Everytime a nerd calls fractals "art", God kills a kitten.
So that's where all the laid-off Wall Street guys went...
Hah, you can have all the benefits of a stranger without having to sit on your hand for 20 minutes.
You're closer to the truth than you realize. The same thing is going on in America as well - the limiting of abortion coverage in our healthcare bill, our pop-culture's fairly recent obsession with babies and breeding, antagonism towards Planned Parenthood.
Corporations want to have their cake and eat it too. They want to have a huge foreign pool of cheap labor, and they want to have a huge domestic pool of proletariat consumers and disposable warriors.
Heh. I doubt it's entirely true that Indians search for sex more than everybody else, just that others are just more specific.
:)
Hypothetical example: for every Indian who looks up "sex", there are four Americans who each look up "fisting", "creampies", "MILFs", and "jailbait"
I'm a relative Linux noob coming from Cubase on Windows. Switching from Cubase to Ardour is a lot like switching from Photoshop to Gimp - Ardour is still pretty good, but it dosen't include any plugins and installing plugins is unnecessarily difficult. You can run VST plugins in Ardour at the cost of stability and a custom-compile. I had problems with installing the Ubuntu studio from the ISO (It's one of those primitive BIOS-style installs and different steps failed multiple times -- what the fuck?) so I installed vanilla 9.10 and apt-get'd Ubuntu-studio. I have no desire to try Cubase on WINE.
The Linux setup is much more modular. My Windows setup required only Cubase and a few of its plugins -- it was self-contained -- but my Linux setup involves setting up Jack, Ardour, and Hydrogen to work with each other(which is not difficult). I am currently having problems with on my laptop with a built-in mic because the mic's input is summed with the other input and there is no way to differentiate and disable the laptop mic without unsoldering the mic and shorting the leads. The setup works out of the box, but do not try to mess with the ALSA driver or you may bork your audio.
Hydrogen, the drum machine, can be synchronized with Ardour via Jack transport. In Cubase, you'd set the time signature(3/4 for example) via the transport bar and everything would be setup and synchronized. To set a 3/4 time signature in Hydrogen, you have to set size and the resolution to 4T - shit like that is proof that no musicians were involved in the development of it. Ardour is basically a glorifed WaveLab or Soundforge while Cubase is a whole production suite. I haven't yet tested my USB audio interface but I've read that it works with Ardour. I've got much more tinkering to do before I decide whether or not to go back to Cubase.
Hope that helps.
Duke Nukem: Unsatisfied Husband Edition
After saving the world, Duke becomes castrated in an unhappy marriage to Samus Aran and is forced to drift from bar to bar giving strippers handsome tips. The ability to drink beers and become intoxicated was borrowed from Deus Ex for a more realistic experience.
The Translation is:
"Hello? have I reached the owner of this cellular phone? You mistakenly left it on the train, and I wanted to mail it back to you. A reward? No, that won't be necessary; the good deed is a reward in itself."
Blue ESD smocks are actually a good idea.
Hell no, bro. I finally transitioned to an all-Linux household after the release of the ultra-mature, ultra-stable Ubuntu 9.10. It worked wonders right out of the box. The only gripe I have about 9.10 is the default desktop wallpaper which is colored like tubgirl's whale-spout.
My 7 year old Dell Latitude D600 runs the compiz cube and with all the pretty window effects and dosen't even slow down until a skydome image or 3-d windows on cube rotate are added. All hardware is detected with the best drivers and there are no issues with hibernation. There's also no need for command-line boot options. It just works(tm).
Next up for Linux, media production software. What the fuck is up with Hydrogen and Ardour? Can't they get at least one real musician on their design staff?
If you can furnish proof that they haven't already, especially before Google did, I'll buy you a beer. After all, I didn't hear anything about Bing or Yahoo when the Michelle Obama monkey scandal broke.
If Foundem was a search company worth their salt then they'd at least have an explanation as to how "The Man" was holdin' 'em down. Just sounds like a shill of another pissed-off advertising company who wasn't good enough to be bought out by Google. There are an awful lot of those out on Madison Avenue. As proof, I'll read to you a quote from the Oct 12, 2009 issue of The New Yorker magazine. The article begins on page 46 and depicts Page and Brin windsurfing:
Hey, at least they're not "Fair and Balanced"~
Inability to explain why. Credibility of your article nullified. Samzenpus is trolling.
Google, a company based in America, has an autocomplete-style guessing algorithm which showed "Michelle Obama monkey" as the first choice when one typed in "michelle". It was so fair that they had to alter their own results and provide a disclaimer for the sake of political correctness. Apparently that wasn't even the first time they'd dealt with that situation. I'd say Google is fair until assholes like article author started bitching and moaning.
Try teaming up with Metacrawler, they are many times as powerful as google.
Yeah, Toyota also borrowed the wheel from somebody. It's only a matter of time until they're sued in the East district of Texas.
I dunno, will you tell me exactly why you feel you've been shortchanged by Google?