Having gone through boot camp I know that it teaches the smarter folks to stay under the radar and let the idiots have all the attention. The downside to that is that those same idiots will be your supervisors years later.
What you said about it turning useless idiots into productive citizens is really a crap-shoot. Some straighten-up, others use their skills for bad things. It also turns people who thought they were productive in high school into useless idiots because they can't think outside the box. Many of them stay in the service because they're so used to being told what to do, having their lives managed down to slightest wiping of the ass.
The problem is in the selection of the submissions.
I like the submissions and I have no problem with frequent status updates with regard to YRO type-stuff.
That said, I notice that many of the chosen submitters are known Slashdot toadies. I think there may be an affirmative-action type thing going on where, if a toady and a non-toady submit the same article and the non-toady's summary is slightly better, the toadie's submission will usually be accepted.
Also keep in mind that some users may or may not have personal and/or special relationships with one or more of the editors. Anyway, no point in whining about it. It's their forum and they can post whatever the hell they want. If it hurts you that badly then become a professional troll out of protest. Reading your posts, though, I don't think you have what it takes;)
Religion is beautiful from artistic and literary standpoints, but everything goes wrong when people actually believe that shit.
J.S. Bach wrote some good shit in God's name as he fooled around with maids in the wine cellar and beat up his bassoon player in a streetfight. Fortunately people no longer need to evoke god in order to have an audience appreciate their art. In fact, quite the opposite. Christian "rock" music? WaHAHAHAhahahah! And the Muslim shit ain't all that good either, unless you like buzzing and droning yourself into a hateful trance.
Not necessarily. Submitter could take a game programming or, if available, software engineering class at a community college. Those classes almost always emphasize group projects.
That would be a great way to jump right in to team programming experience to learn the skills of those better than yourself and you also learn the patience to work with idiots. In short, that's a great way to learn what kind of coder (team player, leader, lone wolf hacker etc. ) you are.
The efficacy of the ad (which Roger Ebert rated two middle fingers up) depends on copyright infringement actually involving jackbooted thugs and jail time, and we know that the content providers have agents in Washington. As others have noted below, the ad itself seems to be goofy and not necessarily the scare-tactic public service announcements we saw during the Bush I and Reagan eras.
Also, one more Association to add to my shit-list.
Conspiracy theories are effective because of the notion that a select few people can and do fuck things up for everybody else.
It's not necessarily an illuminati-style thing started by the knights templar and involving freemasons and Catholics, it's just a bunch of animalistic greed. Hunger for money, lust for power. Coveting control. Abuse of a national registry is an inevitable part of that agenda.
Eh, the mods are bitch-ass cocksuckers anyway. They're best left to wagging their tails and licking peanut butter off of Timothy's Jewish penis. By the way, bitches, today is the birthday of the biggest troll in the world - the USA. If you don't live here, you are sucking us off. Everybody who mods me down is a nullo. I have excellent karma bitches. Fuck religion. Waste your points on me. If you have points then you are FAGGOTS. You sucked enough dicks to earn those doggy bones
HAW! You told him, motherfucker! And wouldn't deconstruction make a mashup a mash-down?
Thank you, thank you, I'll be here all week. Try my wife's pussy, it tastes of fish.
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Happy Birthday America!
We the Americans are fucking badass. We have the best toys. We wield the biggest dicks and the most advanced weaponry we use to blast the living shit out of everybody who fucks with us. We go to the Middle East and shit in their fucking faces just because we feel like it.
Our women are the hottest. Our microbrews are the coldest. Our genes are the most desireable. Our space program is the envy of the cuckolded masturbators of Russia and China. We the Americans are the master race. We defeated the commies, and we don't take no shit from 14th century savages.
If you read TFA you'd know that Microsoft dosen't have a complaints division. Their highly-advanced proprietary software automatically sets all complaints equal to null.
Back on-topic, there is a bright side to this: people will begin to buy analog paper books again. Oh, and the Kindle is an overpriced piece of shit geared towards yuppie scum.
I've been on antipsychotic meds. If that's the way most people feel all of the time then they're a bunch of idiot zombies who can't think for themselves, as they drift from day to day across a pointless existence. Oh, wait;)
Many folks believe they are crazy because they feel outside of normalcy. Fuck normalcy. I'll take idiosyncracies and...gasp...a personality over being "normal" anyday.
Oh noes, it's "illegal" to ride on the footpaths! Trust me, that cop in the right lane will thank you for staying the fuck off the goddamn street, and every other motorist will also.
Girlintraining has a point - bike riders are fucking douches who need to stay the fuck off the goddamn street. Most of them are baby boomer scum and their douchebag offspring who've bankrupted the country and are now living out their mid-life crises and only-child entitlements in their obnoxious bike shorts and neon spandex and their stupid-looking dickhead helmets which are a slap in the face because they're playing chicken with multi-ton armored shells while swerving into busy streets at 3mph.
I love riding bikes and skateboarding but I stay the fuck off the goddamn road. I've rode on the sidewalk my entire life and I've never been cited, even as cops drove right by. I like it better that way because I know I won't be knocked the fuck off my bike. Motorists like it that way because they don't have to deal with your 50-million dollar lawsuit and medical bills.
2 things in life will always succeed in pissing me the fuck off. The first is fucking religious morons, Jesus and Allah suck my cock etc. The second is fucking silver-spoon douchebags or dumb-shit starving students, breast-fed and ass-wiped by mommy till age 20, riding their fucking bikes in the street. They make me want to do a Grizwold European Vacation[skip to 5:00] on their ass.
What about the decrease in ejaculatory volume? When you shoot the first mega-nut, the next nut after that is 50-25% the volume of the first nut, and then it decreases substantially from there. What I want is the formula which specifies average increases in motility with decreases in volume.
Oh, lawdy. I hope submitter knows what they're getting into. They'd better be receiving a lot of money. That said, here are some tips for submitter:
Find another job. If you can't,
Move closer. If you can't,
Drink lots of coffee - working that shift will turn you into a zombie. Coffee (and tobacco, not recommended) keep you alert, give you something to look forward to, and supress the appetite so you...
Don't eat out of boredom - stay away from that snack machine. Bring healthy stuff to eat, because you will not be able to stay "in shape". As long as you moderate your munchies you won't gain weight (and you will probably lose weight as you'll be perpetually exhausted). You'll receive no excercise unless...
You make arrangements to exercise locally. Use the company gym or use your lunch break to find a local 24-hour gym and get a membership there. At least half an hour every day will be adequate. If you have only a half-hour for lunch then make an arrangement to use your mandated breaks in conjection with your lunch break to buy you some time. If your boss dosen't understand that then he's a sadist and you're better off working elsewhere.
If no gyms are available then bring gym clothes and spend your lunch break taking a night jog. Bring music. Night jogs are peaceful and will clear your head. Most places have at least one bathroom with a shower. If you don't have other options then it's exercise vs. stink.
But those are only suggestions as I've never lasted more than 5 months on that shift without going crazy. You got balls, my man.
It's more bullshit political posturing in the name of control, conveniently hitching a ride on the coattails of an emotionally-charged 'think of the children' type issue, and it's also disgusting hypocrisy.
Who makes those sekrit black boxes connected to American Telco's fiber splices? Why aren't the telcos and the facilitators of domestic spying being condemned and sanctioned?
Before you know it you'll have to pay a fee every time you REMEMBER a show you saw on TV.
I'm torn. I think it's revolting that corporations would sue over parodies and covers. At the same time, I wish that the MPAA'd go after everybody who makes those tired shark-with-frickin'-lasers jokes on Slashdot.
Don't worry, Bernie. They'll get that down to 5 years tops and maybe a little probation afterward, your age and your health being extenuating circumstances. You'll have your own cell with your own TV and you'll get pizza and private calls twice a week.
Right, because that's what I wanted to debunk. The Slashdotter-friendly summary says that his words are "overblown" but TFA goes on to elaborate independently the bad stereotypes of Vineet Nayar. I am responding to them, not to the submitter.
You're being a bit flame-batish...and a pack of queers and freeky fashionistas have programmed into so many that having someseventeen year old girl with the figure of an eight year old boy...
I'm being "flame-batish?!:) Excellent post nonetheless.
And though HTC's Vineet Nayar's proclamation that American programmers are 'unemployable'...
Flamebait. The article goes on to say that Americans are all prima donnas who are out of touch with reality and want to start with 80K a year and whatnot. Besides that being a bad stereotype and not always true, and when it is true it also applies to math or engineering or whatever grads whose parents buttercupped them with promises of the American dream when they finished school. It is their fault for not anticipating reality just as it will be the Indians' fault if they refuse to anticipate their jobs going somewhere cheaper.
there may be wisdom in offering a new kind of computer engineering degree targeted toward the student who is more interested in succeeding in industry than exploring computing theory.
They're already here, usually called "Software Engineering. The coursework is usually half business, half programming and IT. If you can survive rolling your eyes at all the buzzwords and colored charts, it's decent preparation for becoming a Dilbertian drone. Plus, you won't have to sweat learning the vector calculus you'll never use outside of school.
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Having gone through boot camp I know that it teaches the smarter folks to stay under the radar and let the idiots have all the attention. The downside to that is that those same idiots will be your supervisors years later.
What you said about it turning useless idiots into productive citizens is really a crap-shoot. Some straighten-up, others use their skills for bad things. It also turns people who thought they were productive in high school into useless idiots because they can't think outside the box. Many of them stay in the service because they're so used to being told what to do, having their lives managed down to slightest wiping of the ass.
The Americans need it more than the Chinese do. At least the Chinese don't get fat.
Build it, I say. That'll teach those birds to crap on my car!
Really. And all this wouldn't even be a problem if they just wrote it in Java to begin with.
This is why we can't have nice things.
The problem is in the selection of the submissions.
I like the submissions and I have no problem with frequent status updates with regard to YRO type-stuff.
;)
That said, I notice that many of the chosen submitters are known Slashdot toadies. I think there may be an affirmative-action type thing going on where, if a toady and a non-toady submit the same article and the non-toady's summary is slightly better, the toadie's submission will usually be accepted.
Also keep in mind that some users may or may not have personal and/or special relationships with one or more of the editors. Anyway, no point in whining about it. It's their forum and they can post whatever the hell they want. If it hurts you that badly then become a professional troll out of protest. Reading your posts, though, I don't think you have what it takes
God is my favorite fictional character.
Religion is beautiful from artistic and literary standpoints, but everything goes wrong when people actually believe that shit.
J.S. Bach wrote some good shit in God's name as he fooled around with maids in the wine cellar and beat up his bassoon player in a streetfight. Fortunately people no longer need to evoke god in order to have an audience appreciate their art. In fact, quite the opposite. Christian "rock" music? WaHAHAHAhahahah! And the Muslim shit ain't all that good either, unless you like buzzing and droning yourself into a hateful trance.
Not necessarily. Submitter could take a game programming or, if available, software engineering class at a community college. Those classes almost always emphasize group projects.
That would be a great way to jump right in to team programming experience to learn the skills of those better than yourself and you also learn the patience to work with idiots. In short, that's a great way to learn what kind of coder (team player, leader, lone wolf hacker etc. ) you are.
The efficacy of the ad (which Roger Ebert rated two middle fingers up) depends on copyright infringement actually involving jackbooted thugs and jail time, and we know that the content providers have agents in Washington. As others have noted below, the ad itself seems to be goofy and not necessarily the scare-tactic public service announcements we saw during the Bush I and Reagan eras.
Also, one more Association to add to my shit-list.
Conspiracy theories are effective because of the notion that a select few people can and do fuck things up for everybody else.
It's not necessarily an illuminati-style thing started by the knights templar and involving freemasons and Catholics, it's just a bunch of animalistic greed. Hunger for money, lust for power. Coveting control. Abuse of a national registry is an inevitable part of that agenda.
Eh, the mods are bitch-ass cocksuckers anyway. They're best left to wagging their tails and licking peanut butter off of Timothy's Jewish penis. By the way, bitches, today is the birthday of the biggest troll in the world - the USA. If you don't live here, you are sucking us off. Everybody who mods me down is a nullo. I have excellent karma bitches. Fuck religion. Waste your points on me. If you have points then you are FAGGOTS. You sucked enough dicks to earn those doggy bones
Nigger Kike Spic Gook Wop ZIEG HEIL!.
Get a used laptop for 200 bucks and install Foxit on it.
Standalone readers are overpriced DRM and ad-ridden pieces of shit for yuppie bitches.
Or how about this: read the fucking paper book instead!
HAW! You told him, motherfucker! And wouldn't deconstruction make a mashup a mash-down?
Thank you, thank you, I'll be here all week. Try my wife's pussy, it tastes of fish.
Happy Birthday America!
We the Americans are fucking badass. We have the best toys. We wield the biggest dicks and the most advanced weaponry we use to blast the living shit out of everybody who fucks with us. We go to the Middle East and shit in their fucking faces just because we feel like it.
Our women are the hottest. Our microbrews are the coldest. Our genes are the most desireable. Our space program is the envy of the cuckolded masturbators of Russia and China. We the Americans are the master race. We defeated the commies, and we don't take no shit from 14th century savages.
Don't fuck with America. +5, informative
Posting because I modded you down.
If you read TFA you'd know that Microsoft dosen't have a complaints division. Their highly-advanced proprietary software automatically sets all complaints equal to null.
Back on-topic, there is a bright side to this: people will begin to buy analog paper books again. Oh, and the Kindle is an overpriced piece of shit geared towards yuppie scum.
I've been on antipsychotic meds. If that's the way most people feel all of the time then they're a bunch of idiot zombies who can't think for themselves, as they drift from day to day across a pointless existence. Oh, wait ;)
Many folks believe they are crazy because they feel outside of normalcy. Fuck normalcy. I'll take idiosyncracies and...gasp...a personality over being "normal" anyday.
Oh noes, it's "illegal" to ride on the footpaths! Trust me, that cop in the right lane will thank you for staying the fuck off the goddamn street, and every other motorist will also.
Girlintraining has a point - bike riders are fucking douches who need to stay the fuck off the goddamn street. Most of them are baby boomer scum and their douchebag offspring who've bankrupted the country and are now living out their mid-life crises and only-child entitlements in their obnoxious bike shorts and neon spandex and their stupid-looking dickhead helmets which are a slap in the face because they're playing chicken with multi-ton armored shells while swerving into busy streets at 3mph.
I love riding bikes and skateboarding but I stay the fuck off the goddamn road. I've rode on the sidewalk my entire life and I've never been cited, even as cops drove right by. I like it better that way because I know I won't be knocked the fuck off my bike. Motorists like it that way because they don't have to deal with your 50-million dollar lawsuit and medical bills.
2 things in life will always succeed in pissing me the fuck off. The first is fucking religious morons, Jesus and Allah suck my cock etc. The second is fucking silver-spoon douchebags or dumb-shit starving students, breast-fed and ass-wiped by mommy till age 20, riding their fucking bikes in the street. They make me want to do a Grizwold European Vacation[skip to 5:00] on their ass.
-1, motherfuckers!
What about the decrease in ejaculatory volume? When you shoot the first mega-nut, the next nut after that is 50-25% the volume of the first nut, and then it decreases substantially from there. What I want is the formula which specifies average increases in motility with decreases in volume.
...freshly shaved Asian...pussy...
You haven't seen very much Asian porn, have you? You're in for a big surprise once Mommy and Daddy uninstall NetNanny.
But those are only suggestions as I've never lasted more than 5 months on that shift without going crazy. You got balls, my man.
It's more bullshit political posturing in the name of control, conveniently hitching a ride on the coattails of an emotionally-charged 'think of the children' type issue, and it's also disgusting hypocrisy.
Who makes those sekrit black boxes connected to American Telco's fiber splices? Why aren't the telcos and the facilitators of domestic spying being condemned and sanctioned?
Before you know it you'll have to pay a fee every time you REMEMBER a show you saw on TV.
I'm torn. I think it's revolting that corporations would sue over parodies and covers. At the same time, I wish that the MPAA'd go after everybody who makes those tired shark-with-frickin'-lasers jokes on Slashdot.
Don't worry, Bernie. They'll get that down to 5 years tops and maybe a little probation afterward, your age and your health being extenuating circumstances. You'll have your own cell with your own TV and you'll get pizza and private calls twice a week.
Right, because that's what I wanted to debunk. The Slashdotter-friendly summary says that his words are "overblown" but TFA goes on to elaborate independently the bad stereotypes of Vineet Nayar. I am responding to them, not to the submitter.
You're being a bit flame-batish...and a pack of queers and freeky fashionistas have programmed into so many that having someseventeen year old girl with the figure of an eight year old boy...
I'm being "flame-batish?! :)
Excellent post nonetheless.
And though HTC's Vineet Nayar's proclamation that American programmers are 'unemployable'...
Flamebait. The article goes on to say that Americans are all prima donnas who are out of touch with reality and want to start with 80K a year and whatnot. Besides that being a bad stereotype and not always true, and when it is true it also applies to math or engineering or whatever grads whose parents buttercupped them with promises of the American dream when they finished school. It is their fault for not anticipating reality just as it will be the Indians' fault if they refuse to anticipate their jobs going somewhere cheaper.
there may be wisdom in offering a new kind of computer engineering degree targeted toward the student who is more interested in succeeding in industry than exploring computing theory.
They're already here, usually called "Software Engineering. The coursework is usually half business, half programming and IT. If you can survive rolling your eyes at all the buzzwords and colored charts, it's decent preparation for becoming a Dilbertian drone. Plus, you won't have to sweat learning the vector calculus you'll never use outside of school.