A judge is essentially a government employee. Name one competent government employee. I double dare you. Nobody in government gets fired for incompetence.
It sounds almost as wonderful as allowing websites to take control of and install software on your computer with Active X, with or without the user's knowledge or consent! Wonderful innovation coming from the minds of our mercantile masters!
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No, they're a "buy it and use it the way we tell you, you own nothing" company. Otherwise they wouldn't have EULAs on all their software and hardware.
My post wasn't entirely serious, though I know that's not apparent. Everyone with a bone to pick with Islam raves about the "Paedophile Prophet", and I'm a little annoyed, honestly, that I was modded informative. I was actually hoping to be modded troll, as strange as that sounds, to show how stupid that line is for the reasons you've outlined. There are only three ways to be modded troll on Slashdot: first is to put a standard copy-paste troll thing into the first post like that "Obama policies will bankrupt America" crap. Second is to insult a few people, and third is to honestly state your opinion and have someone use -1 Troll in the absence of -1 Disagree. I chose the second, of course.
At that time in history, it's likely boys and girls were married off in arranged marriages even younger than 9. By the way, my personal sensibilities say anyone who thinks they'll fill the void in their life with weekly visits to a high-roofed building with hard seats needs to re-evaluate their life. What I've seen in my (admittedly short, at 21) life makes me think God and liquor do it equally well, and neither one is the right answer.
A good 80% of the appeal of a meme comes from how lame it is. If something is actually funny, it is immediately disqualified from being a meme. Memes derive their humour from actually being memes, and being overused and abused in every way; as such, anything with actual humour to it is ultimately ruined if it becomes a meme, while completely ridiculous and un-funny things can become funny through the memification process. Ultimately, memes have a positive influence on the world because they create humour from nothing. They take no humour from existing jokes, but produce additional humour of their own. It is though this process that the amount of humour in the world is actually temporarily increased for the life of the meme.
There are so many things wrong with that post... You don't need to learn anything about the command line, you don't need to compile anything if you don't want to (90% of what you want is likely in your distro's repository. Various programmers might have their own compiled packages or repositories, bringing it up to 99% of whatever you'd want. only THEN, in 1% of cases, would you need to compile anything). Most distros have a GUI on the live CD now, and you can install from within a nice shiny GUI. Even listen to your music and get on MSN while it's installing, if you want. Before anyone comments on it, yes, I am feeding the troll, but this is for the benefit of those who can't tell the difference between the troll and the truth. Someone has to counter this bullshit.
Lastly, what kind of idiot are you? Dwarves don't have the technical aptitude to code an OS (they're all working for Microsoft). The ones programming for Linux are gnomes!
Don't get me wrong, I see the merit of posting anonymously, and the need for it to be an option, but what really pisses me off is the trolling. There's a difference between free speech and the bullshit we always see within the first three posts. It's enough to make me give up moderation and browse at +4 (is +4 even an option?). I normally browse at -1 so I can mod people up when they've been unfairly modded down, but there's been an explosion in trolling lately, and it's getting impossible to sift the good comments from the bad. Look at the majority of the replies to the comment I'm replying to. It's a fair bet they're all by one or two different people. Can't we IP-ban repeat offenders? Sometimes it's not obvious what's a troll and what's unpopular, but when you see the same shit pasted into post after post after post, I'd say it's likely that's a troll.
All western nations should be taking the Chinese government as a chilling vision of things to come, and watching the Chinese people to see how the fuck we can get out of our future mess. My bet is there'll be a few more craters on the surface of the earth, and a few more chapters in our anthologies of war (I mean... "history books") before the world changes for the better. I don't think war is the right answer - civil or otherwise - but I do think it's the answer people will choose.
I always use traditional methods to get things done. It just happens that I introduce new traditions into my life and throw out old ones every few hours. A recent tradition is no less a tradition!:P
If The Phantom had made it to market (maybe it did, but I know I never saw one outside of a magazine mockup), this is exactly what would have killed it. Such a console just wouldn't survive in a country where ISPs use download caps - or in the case of many ISPs in Australia, "usage caps" or "data allowances" which include uploads.
Real men (possibly cave men...) killed others with their bare hands! Ban every weapon and we'll be left with our natural ones, and I'm pretty sure it would be difficult to ban hands. Since when has banning anything prevented it from getting into people's hands? We still have drug problems. Minors still guzzle booze. In countries that have banned guns, plenty of people still have them. If I wanted to kill a few specific people, I wouldn't even need a high powered gun. Air rifles can kill at point blanc; and they conveniently don't leave GSR on your clothes, though I'm not sure about striations on the pellet.
I've found a common link between every single shooting that has occurred in my lifetime: I seem to have answered nature's call some time before each shooting happened! We should ban me using the toilet!
Football: a violent contact sport, frequently resulting in personal injury. Chess: A game in which you are encouraged to send blindly loyal soldiers of varying specialties to their untimely deaths all in the name of protecting a single political figure. Horse races: Involves brutally pitting horses against one another, some choose to include whipping. The horses get nothing but a fresh feed bag, while the trainers get millions in prize money, and book keepers rake in billions from the gambling. I'm sure there's something bad about golf, but all I could think of is "known to cause heart attacks in managers who should be behind their desks", but that's no loss for the world.
Anything can be portrayed in a bad light by phrasing it correctly.
I'd probably want to be able to do everything I can do from my desktop computer, to some degree. "PDA features" probably wasn't a good description, I admit. A fully featured office suite on my phone would be a nice start. IM clients that haven't had all the features stripped from them, too. Plenty of my friends have smartphones that have an MSN client, and they don't even support font colours or avatars. Before I knew about Linux (and different CPU architectures...), I thought it would be nice to be able to run pretty much any Windows application the device was powerful enough to run. I see now that that's pretty unrealistic, but Android does bring us a little closer to that, for Linux applications.
I've always said a "smartphone" will never cut the mustard for me. I don't care how many PDA-like features it has, the PDA features will always be inferior to a real PDA. What I want is a PDA with phone features like voice and text. A netbook with a voip service would sum up the functionality I want, though I'd want it in a smaller form factor.
Last I checked, in the English language, at least, when we say "a million", we usually don't mean a literal million. That's what "one million" is for. "A million" tends to just mean "a hell of a lot". To say a program has a million bugs probably doesn't mean there are literally one million bugs in it, it just means there are quite a few.
I once considered studying psychology, since everyone always came to me for insight and understanding. I decided against it for reasons similar to what you've discussed in your post, though condensed to one sentence: a textbook about 'average' humans won't help me understand anyone on a personal level (though your post goes into greater depth, of course, about psychology in general. My reasons were more self-centred). I don't have any questions, really, but I would like to say it's nice to read someone else's longwinded post for a change (I try to refrain from making longwinded posts, because the response is usually "tl,dr"). I have a mind that tends to wander a bit, but when I seize on a single idea, I can talk about it for hours. Plus the related topics that it brushes on. A very useful skill for writing essays, when it can be focused.
I'd just like to say, I did read your whole post, and I thank you for explaining yourself so well. The writing is commendable. I even looked up "namaste", since I'd only heard it once before. At the time, I wasn't near a computer, so I couldn't look it up. By context I figured it was a simple greeting. I don't know if there's an appropriate response to it, so I'll just close by saying
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A judge is essentially a government employee. Name one competent government employee. I double dare you. Nobody in government gets fired for incompetence.
No, he'd say "Hey, sexy mama! Wanna kill all humans?"
The April Fools crap is over now? It's a silly day anyway.
It sounds almost as wonderful as allowing websites to take control of and install software on your computer with Active X, with or without the user's knowledge or consent! Wonderful innovation coming from the minds of our mercantile masters!
No, they're a "buy it and use it the way we tell you, you own nothing" company. Otherwise they wouldn't have EULAs on all their software and hardware.
My post wasn't entirely serious, though I know that's not apparent. Everyone with a bone to pick with Islam raves about the "Paedophile Prophet", and I'm a little annoyed, honestly, that I was modded informative. I was actually hoping to be modded troll, as strange as that sounds, to show how stupid that line is for the reasons you've outlined. There are only three ways to be modded troll on Slashdot: first is to put a standard copy-paste troll thing into the first post like that "Obama policies will bankrupt America" crap. Second is to insult a few people, and third is to honestly state your opinion and have someone use -1 Troll in the absence of -1 Disagree. I chose the second, of course.
At that time in history, it's likely boys and girls were married off in arranged marriages even younger than 9. By the way, my personal sensibilities say anyone who thinks they'll fill the void in their life with weekly visits to a high-roofed building with hard seats needs to re-evaluate their life. What I've seen in my (admittedly short, at 21) life makes me think God and liquor do it equally well, and neither one is the right answer.
Don't forget paedophile! Mohammed's wife was 9 when the marriage was consummated.
You can't get through Customs if you're carrying ANY packets!
I'm ignoring the troll itself, just looking out for the people who don't.
A good 80% of the appeal of a meme comes from how lame it is. If something is actually funny, it is immediately disqualified from being a meme. Memes derive their humour from actually being memes, and being overused and abused in every way; as such, anything with actual humour to it is ultimately ruined if it becomes a meme, while completely ridiculous and un-funny things can become funny through the memification process. Ultimately, memes have a positive influence on the world because they create humour from nothing. They take no humour from existing jokes, but produce additional humour of their own. It is though this process that the amount of humour in the world is actually temporarily increased for the life of the meme.
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No, he accidentally the whole verb.
There are so many things wrong with that post... You don't need to learn anything about the command line, you don't need to compile anything if you don't want to (90% of what you want is likely in your distro's repository. Various programmers might have their own compiled packages or repositories, bringing it up to 99% of whatever you'd want. only THEN, in 1% of cases, would you need to compile anything). Most distros have a GUI on the live CD now, and you can install from within a nice shiny GUI. Even listen to your music and get on MSN while it's installing, if you want. Before anyone comments on it, yes, I am feeding the troll, but this is for the benefit of those who can't tell the difference between the troll and the truth. Someone has to counter this bullshit.
Lastly, what kind of idiot are you? Dwarves don't have the technical aptitude to code an OS (they're all working for Microsoft). The ones programming for Linux are gnomes!
Don't get me wrong, I see the merit of posting anonymously, and the need for it to be an option, but what really pisses me off is the trolling. There's a difference between free speech and the bullshit we always see within the first three posts. It's enough to make me give up moderation and browse at +4 (is +4 even an option?). I normally browse at -1 so I can mod people up when they've been unfairly modded down, but there's been an explosion in trolling lately, and it's getting impossible to sift the good comments from the bad. Look at the majority of the replies to the comment I'm replying to. It's a fair bet they're all by one or two different people. Can't we IP-ban repeat offenders? Sometimes it's not obvious what's a troll and what's unpopular, but when you see the same shit pasted into post after post after post, I'd say it's likely that's a troll.
All western nations should be taking the Chinese government as a chilling vision of things to come, and watching the Chinese people to see how the fuck we can get out of our future mess. My bet is there'll be a few more craters on the surface of the earth, and a few more chapters in our anthologies of war (I mean... "history books") before the world changes for the better. I don't think war is the right answer - civil or otherwise - but I do think it's the answer people will choose.
I always use traditional methods to get things done. It just happens that I introduce new traditions into my life and throw out old ones every few hours. A recent tradition is no less a tradition! :P
It probably wouldn't be so bad if we could listen to the lossless one on our portable devices. I'd much rather a Flac/Ogg hybrid, though.
If The Phantom had made it to market (maybe it did, but I know I never saw one outside of a magazine mockup), this is exactly what would have killed it. Such a console just wouldn't survive in a country where ISPs use download caps - or in the case of many ISPs in Australia, "usage caps" or "data allowances" which include uploads.
I think we're talking about completely different codes of "football" here. I was talking about rugby league and union :P
Real men (possibly cave men...) killed others with their bare hands! Ban every weapon and we'll be left with our natural ones, and I'm pretty sure it would be difficult to ban hands. Since when has banning anything prevented it from getting into people's hands? We still have drug problems. Minors still guzzle booze. In countries that have banned guns, plenty of people still have them. If I wanted to kill a few specific people, I wouldn't even need a high powered gun. Air rifles can kill at point blanc; and they conveniently don't leave GSR on your clothes, though I'm not sure about striations on the pellet.
I've found a common link between every single shooting that has occurred in my lifetime: I seem to have answered nature's call some time before each shooting happened! We should ban me using the toilet!
Football: a violent contact sport, frequently resulting in personal injury. Chess: A game in which you are encouraged to send blindly loyal soldiers of varying specialties to their untimely deaths all in the name of protecting a single political figure. Horse races: Involves brutally pitting horses against one another, some choose to include whipping. The horses get nothing but a fresh feed bag, while the trainers get millions in prize money, and book keepers rake in billions from the gambling. I'm sure there's something bad about golf, but all I could think of is "known to cause heart attacks in managers who should be behind their desks", but that's no loss for the world.
Anything can be portrayed in a bad light by phrasing it correctly.
I'd probably want to be able to do everything I can do from my desktop computer, to some degree. "PDA features" probably wasn't a good description, I admit. A fully featured office suite on my phone would be a nice start. IM clients that haven't had all the features stripped from them, too. Plenty of my friends have smartphones that have an MSN client, and they don't even support font colours or avatars. Before I knew about Linux (and different CPU architectures...), I thought it would be nice to be able to run pretty much any Windows application the device was powerful enough to run. I see now that that's pretty unrealistic, but Android does bring us a little closer to that, for Linux applications.
I've always said a "smartphone" will never cut the mustard for me. I don't care how many PDA-like features it has, the PDA features will always be inferior to a real PDA. What I want is a PDA with phone features like voice and text. A netbook with a voip service would sum up the functionality I want, though I'd want it in a smaller form factor.
Last I checked, in the English language, at least, when we say "a million", we usually don't mean a literal million. That's what "one million" is for. "A million" tends to just mean "a hell of a lot". To say a program has a million bugs probably doesn't mean there are literally one million bugs in it, it just means there are quite a few.
I once considered studying psychology, since everyone always came to me for insight and understanding. I decided against it for reasons similar to what you've discussed in your post, though condensed to one sentence: a textbook about 'average' humans won't help me understand anyone on a personal level (though your post goes into greater depth, of course, about psychology in general. My reasons were more self-centred). I don't have any questions, really, but I would like to say it's nice to read someone else's longwinded post for a change (I try to refrain from making longwinded posts, because the response is usually "tl,dr"). I have a mind that tends to wander a bit, but when I seize on a single idea, I can talk about it for hours. Plus the related topics that it brushes on. A very useful skill for writing essays, when it can be focused.
I'd just like to say, I did read your whole post, and I thank you for explaining yourself so well. The writing is commendable. I even looked up "namaste", since I'd only heard it once before. At the time, I wasn't near a computer, so I couldn't look it up. By context I figured it was a simple greeting. I don't know if there's an appropriate response to it, so I'll just close by saying
Namaste