The younger generation is spoiled.. If you can bring yourself to say "Fuck you" to someone of an elder generation then you're damn well spoiled. The younger generation is spoiled and has no respect anymore. That's the absolute truth.
And as far as starting at the bottom and all that.. I think more kids these days should start at the bottom and learn what it is to put in an honest days work.. funny that I say that and absolutely refuse to work retail or supermarket. My last supermarket job lasted 4 hours of training (I got paid for 8.. so, spoiled) and all of two days. (I laughed when they sent me a W2 for like $3.43)
My father got into the IT industry upwards of a decade ago now and he gets treated as shitty as the younger kids. Someone with 10+ years experience in the field for some big name companies and with all the pieces of paper saying he's capable of doing what his resume says he can.. and they still want to offer him $25-35,000 a year with crap long-term benefits like he's some fresh out of college A+ course grad. Fuck that.
For the record, I'm 18.. I think I've a unique perspective on the drawbacks of being a member of a younger generation. I've been saying for a while now, I was born 30 years too late. I shoulda went to high school with my father and his friends, haha.
Personally, next system I build... which will probably be a really high-end gaming rig, I really plan on running with Win2k Pro. Until support for it gets SO shitty that I've no real choice. Meanwhile I've got a legit Vista Ultimate disc sitting under my glass of rum and coke.
With Win2k Pro on this hardware configuration, I ran the system for about 10 months, no reboots. It was rock solid. (Actually, funny that; A utility company showed up to the neighbor's house to do work and cut power to the wrong house by mistake, which is what ended that 10+ months run.) I used the PC every single day (save for a few days that I left it on and went on vacation) and I did gaming on it (HL2 and other demanding games), I did Photoshop work on it, I left FireFox running with tons of tabs open, I always had crap going on it, constantly. Any windows updates that came along I installed and chose "Restart Later" and kept goin'. NO stability issues, no warnings or errors or programs crashing. NOTHING.
With XP, even with it battened down a fair amount to use a minimum of resources under normal operation, after about 10 days programs begin to act weird, Explorer will do funny things and eye candy will screw up (shadows from windows getting stuck to the desktop when dragging a window, for instance).. Everything just starts to royally fuck up and fall apart after about 10 days. Reboot and things are OK, but XP just sits and shits on itself, and I fucking hate it. Windows 2000 Professional is by far my favorite Microsoft product; Second only to Microsoft Bob.
The beauty I see in a diamond isn't because of the marketing, the advertising campaign, their market value or anything like that. What I find beautiful about a diamond is that it's natural.. that it was made by nature and by the natural happenings of the planet Earth, which in itself is beautiful. The right balance of elements and conditions came together to create a crystal clear diamond from such unlikely elements, and the end result to me is beautiful because of how it was formed, and what it was formed with. Artificial stuff isn't as beautiful to me because it imitates beauty.
I dunno.. 41 counts, among them wire fraud and money laundering? Not your every-day white-collar crime. Plus, most computer criminals are met with some pretty severe penalties. (From what I've seen in the past anyway.)
Then again, you're absolutely right, he's got a lot of things going for him and a lot of options (some more cowardice than others) at his disposal.
I'd sentence him to two life sentences of community service: Helping to EFFECTIVELY control or abolish spam e-mails.
(Shit, maybe I should have posted this as an AC.. hope he doesn't see this and find out my e-mail address!)
Probably took them three years just to sort through the FBI director's inbox and see how many of the penis enlargement offers were legitimate, and how many turned out to be bullshit!
Didn't someone follow their GPS into a river or something recently?
Oh, maybe I'm thinking of the trucker who followed his GPS into a low bridge on a two-lane parkway that's for non-commercial vehicles only. People need to not rely so much on technology. (Especially while operating a motor vehicle which could potentially kill someone or cause damage to things..)
I guess somebody got really sick of this guy's seemingly poor attitude and decided to stick it to him just a little harder. Get something like this posted on/. and this guy will never work as a programmer again. Slick move...
Do you see what happens, Larry, WHEN YOU FUCK A STRANGER IN THE ASS? THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS, LARRY! THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU FUCK A STRANGER IN THE ASS!
Like someone else mentioned, how do computer cables still seem to knot when BOTH ends are plugged into something?
I'm looking down at my headphone cord right now and its knotted and tangled around a microphone cord, and a couple of data/power cables. Everything is plugged in at both ends and the cables almost never get moved around. But that won't stop them from tangling!
True story..
I remember one time as a yougin' off to Grandma's house, I had my fishing pole with me. Now, for some silly reason I had a bunch of fishing line running through all of the loops going up the pole, instead of reeled in and simply tied off at the end like it should have been. I must have had twenty or thirty strands of line looped between the eyelets on the pole. I leaned the pole up against the screen door and walked away for a moment, and when I came back, I went to grab the pole and open the door, and every strand of fishing line had been wrapped on the under side of the door handle! The door handle looked something like this: |] but without the gap at the top and bottom. There was NO way to pass anything behind it. Yet every strand had somehow passed through the door handle and I had to untie and deloopify about fifteen feet of fishing line. I was there for a good ten minutes trying to figure it out. The whole rod never left my sight when I walked away. Nobody ran up and untied it and tediously wrapped it all back around the fishing rod, passing every strand behind the door handle as if it were some sort of sick prank. I honestly never figured that one out...
Look I agree, freedom of speech all the way. But this guy isn't ranting on a blog or even his own cable access show.. he's tying up the court system and accusing the Department of Defense and thus the United States Government of things that go well beyond his scope. He's talking outside his realm. (PS: He's also talking out his ass.. but we knew that.) He needs to shut the fuck up or be tried for treason or committed or something.
I don't know, I agree with the first comment, how come nobody's put a bullet in him yet? Don't you think that if video games really made all of us more violent prone and what have you, that any of the millions of angry gamers, or even anybody in the industry of peddling the violent smut he's entirely against (whom he's cost a lot of money), that someone would have gone after him already?
He really should be disbarred for wasting the court's time though. (And besides, I bet a piece of shit like him is probably into kiddie porn or something. Fucking yuppie loser that he is.)
Little redundant and extruded but well put.. I've only two things to really say in response:
We are the music makers and the dreamers of dreams..
and
Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
"After all, if you were innocent you wouldn't have been arrested, right?"
Wrong.:-\
I found that out the hard way. Weapons charges came up and they needed somebody quiet to pin it on since it was just prior to 9/11 and that blew everybody out of whack. I got a much heavier sentence than I should have, and I honest to God didn't do a fucking thing wrong.
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The younger generation is spoiled.. If you can bring yourself to say "Fuck you" to someone of an elder generation then you're damn well spoiled. The younger generation is spoiled and has no respect anymore. That's the absolute truth.
And as far as starting at the bottom and all that.. I think more kids these days should start at the bottom and learn what it is to put in an honest days work.. funny that I say that and absolutely refuse to work retail or supermarket. My last supermarket job lasted 4 hours of training (I got paid for 8.. so, spoiled) and all of two days. (I laughed when they sent me a W2 for like $3.43)
My father got into the IT industry upwards of a decade ago now and he gets treated as shitty as the younger kids. Someone with 10+ years experience in the field for some big name companies and with all the pieces of paper saying he's capable of doing what his resume says he can.. and they still want to offer him $25-35,000 a year with crap long-term benefits like he's some fresh out of college A+ course grad. Fuck that.
For the record, I'm 18.. I think I've a unique perspective on the drawbacks of being a member of a younger generation. I've been saying for a while now, I was born 30 years too late. I shoulda went to high school with my father and his friends, haha.
Personally, next system I build... which will probably be a really high-end gaming rig, I really plan on running with Win2k Pro. Until support for it gets SO shitty that I've no real choice. Meanwhile I've got a legit Vista Ultimate disc sitting under my glass of rum and coke.
With Win2k Pro on this hardware configuration, I ran the system for about 10 months, no reboots. It was rock solid. (Actually, funny that; A utility company showed up to the neighbor's house to do work and cut power to the wrong house by mistake, which is what ended that 10+ months run.) I used the PC every single day (save for a few days that I left it on and went on vacation) and I did gaming on it (HL2 and other demanding games), I did Photoshop work on it, I left FireFox running with tons of tabs open, I always had crap going on it, constantly. Any windows updates that came along I installed and chose "Restart Later" and kept goin'. NO stability issues, no warnings or errors or programs crashing. NOTHING.
With XP, even with it battened down a fair amount to use a minimum of resources under normal operation, after about 10 days programs begin to act weird, Explorer will do funny things and eye candy will screw up (shadows from windows getting stuck to the desktop when dragging a window, for instance).. Everything just starts to royally fuck up and fall apart after about 10 days. Reboot and things are OK, but XP just sits and shits on itself, and I fucking hate it. Windows 2000 Professional is by far my favorite Microsoft product; Second only to Microsoft Bob.
The beauty I see in a diamond isn't because of the marketing, the advertising campaign, their market value or anything like that. What I find beautiful about a diamond is that it's natural.. that it was made by nature and by the natural happenings of the planet Earth, which in itself is beautiful. The right balance of elements and conditions came together to create a crystal clear diamond from such unlikely elements, and the end result to me is beautiful because of how it was formed, and what it was formed with. Artificial stuff isn't as beautiful to me because it imitates beauty.
I dunno.. 41 counts, among them wire fraud and money laundering? Not your every-day white-collar crime. Plus, most computer criminals are met with some pretty severe penalties. (From what I've seen in the past anyway.)
Then again, you're absolutely right, he's got a lot of things going for him and a lot of options (some more cowardice than others) at his disposal.
I'd sentence him to two life sentences of community service: Helping to EFFECTIVELY control or abolish spam e-mails.
(Shit, maybe I should have posted this as an AC.. hope he doesn't see this and find out my e-mail address!)
Probably took them three years just to sort through the FBI director's inbox and see how many of the penis enlargement offers were legitimate, and how many turned out to be bullshit!
Yeah.. about that..
Didn't someone follow their GPS into a river or something recently?
Oh, maybe I'm thinking of the trucker who followed his GPS into a low bridge on a two-lane parkway that's for non-commercial vehicles only. People need to not rely so much on technology. (Especially while operating a motor vehicle which could potentially kill someone or cause damage to things..)
I guess somebody got really sick of this guy's seemingly poor attitude and decided to stick it to him just a little harder. Get something like this posted on /. and this guy will never work as a programmer again. Slick move...
Do you see what happens, Larry, WHEN YOU FUCK A STRANGER IN THE ASS? THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS, LARRY!
THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU FUCK A STRANGER IN THE ASS!
Like someone else mentioned, how do computer cables still seem to knot when BOTH ends are plugged into something?
I'm looking down at my headphone cord right now and its knotted and tangled around a microphone cord, and a couple of data/power cables. Everything is plugged in at both ends and the cables almost never get moved around. But that won't stop them from tangling!
True story.. I remember one time as a yougin' off to Grandma's house, I had my fishing pole with me. Now, for some silly reason I had a bunch of fishing line running through all of the loops going up the pole, instead of reeled in and simply tied off at the end like it should have been. I must have had twenty or thirty strands of line looped between the eyelets on the pole. I leaned the pole up against the screen door and walked away for a moment, and when I came back, I went to grab the pole and open the door, and every strand of fishing line had been wrapped on the under side of the door handle! The door handle looked something like this: |] but without the gap at the top and bottom. There was NO way to pass anything behind it. Yet every strand had somehow passed through the door handle and I had to untie and deloopify about fifteen feet of fishing line. I was there for a good ten minutes trying to figure it out. The whole rod never left my sight when I walked away. Nobody ran up and untied it and tediously wrapped it all back around the fishing rod, passing every strand behind the door handle as if it were some sort of sick prank. I honestly never figured that one out...
Look I agree, freedom of speech all the way. But this guy isn't ranting on a blog or even his own cable access show.. he's tying up the court system and accusing the Department of Defense and thus the United States Government of things that go well beyond his scope. He's talking outside his realm. (PS: He's also talking out his ass.. but we knew that.) He needs to shut the fuck up or be tried for treason or committed or something.
I don't know, I agree with the first comment, how come nobody's put a bullet in him yet? Don't you think that if video games really made all of us more violent prone and what have you, that any of the millions of angry gamers, or even anybody in the industry of peddling the violent smut he's entirely against (whom he's cost a lot of money), that someone would have gone after him already?
He really should be disbarred for wasting the court's time though. (And besides, I bet a piece of shit like him is probably into kiddie porn or something. Fucking yuppie loser that he is.)
Little redundant and extruded but well put.. I've only two things to really say in response: We are the music makers and the dreamers of dreams.. and Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
"After all, if you were innocent you wouldn't have been arrested, right?" Wrong. :-\
I found that out the hard way. Weapons charges came up and they needed somebody quiet to pin it on since it was just prior to 9/11 and that blew everybody out of whack. I got a much heavier sentence than I should have, and I honest to God didn't do a fucking thing wrong.