Conroy and ISPs implementing the blacklist confirm that this is a fake
And yet in spite of this list's confirmed fakeness, Conroy has threatened that anyone distributing this confirmed fake list will be subject to investigation by federal police and suffer criminal prosecution.
The school system that is costing so much is not delivering the goods. I think some of the reasons it doesn't deliver the goods is that it's ideologically more appealing to the right-wing elements in this country to create a nation of stupid people who are dumb enough to swallow their rhetoric so those right-wing elements can run an election campaign which is not based on facts and figures, but on bunting and sound bites that don't really tell you anything. You need a docile, stupid electorate in order for a person to be elected. And how do you keep them that way? You starve the educational system so that it doesn't really work. You control the content of the school books which are used in the educational system. You rewrite history to suit your ideology. ... I tend to view the whole thing as a conspiracy. It is no accident that the public schools in the United States are pure shit. It is no accident that masses of drugs are available and openly used at all levels of society. In a way, the real business of government is the business of controlling the labor force. Social pressure is placed on people to become a certain type of individual, and then rewards are heaped on people who conform to that stereotype. Take the pop music business, for example. Look at the stereotypes held up by the media as great accomplishment. You see guys who are making millions of dollars and selling millions of units. And because they are making and selling millions they are stamped with the seal of approval, and it is the millions which make their work quality. Yet anyone can look at what is being done and say, "Jesus, I can do that!" You celebrate mediocrity, you get mediocrity. People who could have achieved more won't, because they know that all they have to do is be "that" and they too can sell millions and make millions and have people love them because they're merely mediocre. Few people who do anything excellent are ever heard of. You know why? Because excellence, pure excellence, terrifies the fuck out of Americans because they have been bred to appreciate the success of the mediocre. People don't like to be reminded that lurking somewhere there are people who can do some shit that you can't do. They can think a way you can't think, they can dance a way you can't dance. They are excellent. You aren't excellent. Most Americans aren't excellent, they're only OK. And so to keep them happy as a labor force, you say, "OK, let's take this mediocre chump," and we say, "He is terrific!" All the other mediocre chumps say, "Yeah, that's right and that gives me hope, because one day as mediocre and chumpish as I am I can..." It's smart labor relations.
Browser speed is also not equal to something I care about. Seriously, we're not on 9600 baud modems any more. "Browser speed"? I'm on a frickin 24Mb/s connection for cliff's sake.
It's been done for years - some of the most well-known pop albums of the eighties and nineties were composed and arranged entirely by the producer with no personal involvement by the musicians. But the thing is, the musicians KNEW they were being sampled and turned into an album. The source videos for http://www.thru-you.com/ were plucked out of thin air, so to speak.
Have you listened to these ones?
They are good. REALLY good. Not just "clever" but really frickin' good COMPOSITIONS, and I'm not even taking into account the jaw-dropping editing skills this guy must have. If you haven't watched yet:
http://www.thru-you.com/
"Scientists" haven't forgotten how to manufacture this stuff. The USA has forgotten how to manufacture this stuff. That's what happens when you stop thinking about science.
This is a state law, not a federal one. The headline is misleading in that it contains the words "government of Australia" in that order. It still sucks, but it's not a national law.
Joomla Bugsquad here. Sorry but your post doesn't mention a single point in Joomla that you dislike or even a single point that may be flawed. It actually sounds like a little hissy-fit by someone teenager or early twen with ADHD - to use your own words.
And as you are and "admin for various sites" (Links please) you might actually maybe have some substancial criticisim to add. I'll be glad to pass it on to the core team.
Otherwise please quit any aimless ranting and flailing. You get may modded +5 Interesting on slashdot (qed) - for whatever bizar reason that may be - but it really isn't much of a help and makes you look like an idiot.
I have administered (and currently administer) a number of sites for various clients across a wide range of publishing systems - flat html, php, various CMSes running on Linux, UNIX, and Windows servers.
I cannot find the words to convey the depth of the hatred and loathing I feel for Joomla. It embodies the worst of Open Source - as if it were written by a million angsty teenagers suffering from ADHD, with duplicated functionality across a hundred different modules, little or no sensible documentation, and the usability issues...! Most CMSes try and at least look like some thought has been given to how people in the real world will use them. Joomla feels and behaves like it was designed to be DELIBERATELY confusing, as if the author of any given module was sneering at his imaginary end user, thinking "it's perfectly obvious to ME what to do here, fuck you if you can't work it out, n00b".
Gah! Just thinking about Joomla makes me want to go and wash my hands.
Twitter *is* the poor man's Facebook. Whenever I introduce Twitter to people and they ask me what it is--I reply, "It basically only gives you the option of making status updates like Facebook, and that's pretty much it."
Or, as I phrase it when I'm asked, "It's basically Facebook but without all the shit that makes you want to stab people over the Internet."
Summary: the Sheahan family of Victoria bulldozed a firebreak around their house to protect them in case of a catastrophic bushfire. Of course, anything that involves killing trees places you somewhere between "pedophile" and "war criminal" these days, so the family were taken to court by the local council, and ended up $100,000 poorer.
Then a catastrophic bushfire came along and the Sheahan's is now practically the only house left standing in the district.
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In 1996 I was playing multiplayer Quake online. I was reading email, hanging out in group chats on IRC, browsing websites, and chatting with online contacts via instant messaging.
Ever since my employer's corporate site was hacked and defaced by attackers who got in via a bug in Joomla, I've pretty much thought of Joomla and security as mutually-exclusive concepts.
Joomla is evil. That's all there is to it. The only way to get the functionality you would ever really need beyond basic content management is to pay large sums of money for commercial modules. The community is huge in the worst possible way. There are a million modules for one problem and it is near impossible to find the right one.
The interface is deplorable. None of the methods of content management make any sense, and it is obviously not meant to be user friendly considering the top dollar training offered for the system. If there were ever a CMS to avoid, this would be it.
Whats good CMS to migrate from Joomla?
Our corporate website is about to get full overhaul and I'd perfer to switch away from the ancient Joomla we're running now.
I won't touch the design of the site, I'll leave that to the advertising company, but what I'm looking for is easy way to create and manage content on multilingual web page.
Can someone suggest good alternative?
Of course, it depends what your requirements and what your capabilities are.
Based on my own experiences I'd go with either Wordpress, Movable Type, or Drupal depending on which worked best for the project at hand. Wordpress is insanely easy to set up and style; some of the best-looking sites I've ever seen are Movable Type installations (e.g., barackobama.com) and it's super-easy to administer; Drupal has all the bells and whistles and can be modified to do almost anything.
I guess the best thing to do is set up a dev box, install lots of CMSs, and get familiar with a range.
Joomla scores somewhere around 130 Million hits on Google. About 100 Million more that any other CMS/Web Framework. [google.com]
That's because there's 100 million sites out there proclaiming "Joomla is evil", "Joomla: worst CMS ever", and "Joomla: friends don't let friends use it".
Worst CMS I've ever used. I start grinding my teeth just remembering it.
Having watched the changes in both George Foreman and Cassius Clay(AKA Mohammed Ali) over the years in interviews, this was pretty obvious even to a medical layman.
I totally agree with your point, but I'm not sure Foreman is a good example. In his 1970s interviews he was a sullen monosyllabic grunter. Now he's an outgoing energetic speaker. Although I guess it could be that he was an intelligent sullen monosyllabic grunter in the 70s and now he's a stupid outgoing energetic speaker...
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Two words: Adamo
Conroy and ISPs implementing the blacklist confirm that this is a fake
And yet in spite of this list's confirmed fakeness, Conroy has threatened that anyone distributing this confirmed fake list will be subject to investigation by federal police and suffer criminal prosecution.
o_O
I'm ashamed to belong to the same profession as the poor copywriter who wrote this shit.
"Our focus on industrial design ... serve as the inspiration for Adamo."
Really? Your focus on industrial design serve as the inspiration?
I too am a copywriter, and I want this motherfucker hunted down and killed.
But let's face it: the real credit belongs to Apple who forced everyone to adopt a higher standard.
Compare.
Adamo promo video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUJqWc6seYk
Macbook Air promo video: http://www.apple.com/macbook/the-new-macbook/watch.html#medium
This message of "a higher standard" has obviously not been heard by the Dell marketing department.
I quote the late great Frank Zappa:
Calling these headphones "DRM'd" is like saying that Firewire is DRMed.
Browser speed is also not equal to something I care about. Seriously, we're not on 9600 baud modems any more. "Browser speed"? I'm on a frickin 24Mb/s connection for cliff's sake.
It's been done for years - some of the most well-known pop albums of the eighties and nineties were composed and arranged entirely by the producer with no personal involvement by the musicians. But the thing is, the musicians KNEW they were being sampled and turned into an album. The source videos for http://www.thru-you.com/ were plucked out of thin air, so to speak.
Have you listened to these ones? They are good. REALLY good. Not just "clever" but really frickin' good COMPOSITIONS, and I'm not even taking into account the jaw-dropping editing skills this guy must have. If you haven't watched yet: http://www.thru-you.com/
"Scientists" haven't forgotten how to manufacture this stuff. The USA has forgotten how to manufacture this stuff. That's what happens when you stop thinking about science.
Whoever wrote this "news" story is a fucking idiot and recycling on /. is fucking dumb too.
Two words: kdawson
Boy, sucks to be running Windows!
This is a state law, not a federal one. The headline is misleading in that it contains the words "government of Australia" in that order. It still sucks, but it's not a national law.
Public relations, Joomla style.
I rest my case.
I have administered (and currently administer) a number of sites for various clients across a wide range of publishing systems - flat html, php, various CMSes running on Linux, UNIX, and Windows servers.
I cannot find the words to convey the depth of the hatred and loathing I feel for Joomla. It embodies the worst of Open Source - as if it were written by a million angsty teenagers suffering from ADHD, with duplicated functionality across a hundred different modules, little or no sensible documentation, and the usability issues...! Most CMSes try and at least look like some thought has been given to how people in the real world will use them. Joomla feels and behaves like it was designed to be DELIBERATELY confusing, as if the author of any given module was sneering at his imaginary end user, thinking "it's perfectly obvious to ME what to do here, fuck you if you can't work it out, n00b".
Gah! Just thinking about Joomla makes me want to go and wash my hands.
Or, as I phrase it when I'm asked, "It's basically Facebook but without all the shit that makes you want to stab people over the Internet."
Thanks to the influence of the environmental lobby in Australia, we have situations like this:
http://www.theage.com.au/national/fined-for-illegal-clearing-family-now-feel-vindicated-20090211-84sw.html?page=-1
Summary: the Sheahan family of Victoria bulldozed a firebreak around their house to protect them in case of a catastrophic bushfire. Of course, anything that involves killing trees places you somewhere between "pedophile" and "war criminal" these days, so the family were taken to court by the local council, and ended up $100,000 poorer.
Then a catastrophic bushfire came along and the Sheahan's is now practically the only house left standing in the district.
In 1996 I was playing multiplayer Quake online. I was reading email, hanging out in group chats on IRC, browsing websites, and chatting with online contacts via instant messaging.
Sheesh. It's not like it was THAT different.
Ever since my employer's corporate site was hacked and defaced by attackers who got in via a bug in Joomla, I've pretty much thought of Joomla and security as mutually-exclusive concepts.
Popular music too.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parents_Music_Resource_Center
"How to Choose the Right CMS" - http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/01/how-to-choose-the-right-cms/
Whats good CMS to migrate from Joomla? Our corporate website is about to get full overhaul and I'd perfer to switch away from the ancient Joomla we're running now. I won't touch the design of the site, I'll leave that to the advertising company, but what I'm looking for is easy way to create and manage content on multilingual web page. Can someone suggest good alternative? Of course, it depends what your requirements and what your capabilities are. Based on my own experiences I'd go with either Wordpress, Movable Type, or Drupal depending on which worked best for the project at hand. Wordpress is insanely easy to set up and style; some of the best-looking sites I've ever seen are Movable Type installations (e.g., barackobama.com) and it's super-easy to administer; Drupal has all the bells and whistles and can be modified to do almost anything. I guess the best thing to do is set up a dev box, install lots of CMSs, and get familiar with a range.
Joomla scores somewhere around 130 Million hits on Google. About 100 Million more that any other CMS/Web Framework. [google.com]
That's because there's 100 million sites out there proclaiming "Joomla is evil", "Joomla: worst CMS ever", and "Joomla: friends don't let friends use it".
Worst CMS I've ever used. I start grinding my teeth just remembering it.
Give it up for the record-company system, people! Look how it benefits us all!
Having watched the changes in both George Foreman and Cassius Clay(AKA Mohammed Ali) over the years in interviews, this was pretty obvious even to a medical layman.
I totally agree with your point, but I'm not sure Foreman is a good example. In his 1970s interviews he was a sullen monosyllabic grunter. Now he's an outgoing energetic speaker. Although I guess it could be that he was an intelligent sullen monosyllabic grunter in the 70s and now he's a stupid outgoing energetic speaker...