Ironically, release in time for
Christmas is not mentioned!
There's nothing ironic about Christmas not being mentioned. Irony is, most commonly,
"incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events
and the normal or expected result".
Here are some other things that are not ironic:
rain on your wedding day
a free ride when you've already paid
the good advice you just didn't take
a black fly in your Chardonnay
a death row pardon two minutes too late
winning the lottery and dying the next day
a traffic jam when you're already late
a no-smoking sign on your cigarette break
meeting the man of your dreams and then meeting his beautiful wife
And I don't how the hell to classify "ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife"
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I guess I should have said.. "geeks who've never been in a relationship who look at porn constantly and spank their monkey off in front of their
keyboards probably aren't going to be getting any (sex) anyway".
Whether I agree with that or not, I would suggest that a significant portion of porn purchase comes from people who ARE getting sex, and still like the porn anyway.
You make it sound like porn is strictly for the pimply-faced teens, or the 35-year-old living-at-home loser crowd. --
The only people surfing for porn on the internet are those that CAN'T GET IT IN REAL LIFE
Can't get what? Porn? Or sex?
Assuming your statement is really "porn is for people who can't get sex", you're probably also thinking that people don't masturbate once they're in a committed relationship, too.
Which tells me that you have no idea what you're talking about. --
According to the Bible, yes, because having sex with anyone who is not your wife is adultery. This includes even thinking about sex with someone who is not your wife.
You choke the chicken while watching an episode of "Just Shoot Me" (David Spade, Laura San Giancomo, doesn't matter), you're committing adultery. --
This isn't about apologies. It's about political manoevering by China or the US to use as a bargaining chip in any forthcoming negotiations.
Remember also that we are only months into King George II's reign. Whatever happens here will set the tone for the next years (or eight, God help us). He's gotta play tough or lose any position he's got.
Katz has far too simple a view of this. Saying "Sorry" in this case is the same as crying "Uncle". If we do that, we've lost this situation.
I'd suggest that Katz go see "Thirteen Days" and pay attention to the scene where they talk about how their actions are the new vocabulary of diplomacy, and see how it applies here. --
From the article:
Adds Heather Berry, editor at
Happypuppy.com, a gaming fan site, "If gamers like the game, they
don't care about the product placement."
For me, the reverse seems to be the risk: If gamers care about the product placement, they won't like the game.
I'm more of an RPG/RTS kinda gamer myself (i.e. not the "extreme snowboarding" or Crazy Taxi type of games that seem to be the target here), but if Starcraft II comes out with Coke logos, I'm gonna be really put off by it. --
The Rainmakers refer to this, and other modern technological disasters, in "Rockin' At The T-Dance" off their first album.
Take a trip with me in 1967
With Grissom, White, and Chaffe on a rocket ride to heaven
A dead-end date aboard
AS-204
It was American made, only the best for our boys.
And we were rockin' at the T-dance
I had another date with a homecoming queen
I took her to the prom in Apollo 13
We orbit the moon, we couldn't get home,
Little Queenie's mom was pissed 'cause her baby didn't phone.
And we were rockin' at the T-dance
Take a trip with me to Kansas City, MO
To the Hyatt House, to the big dance floor,
You can still see the ghosts but you can't see the sense,
Why they let the monkey go and blamed the monkey wrench.
And we were rockin' at the T-dance
The whole album is lyrically brilliant, and would do well in the collection of anyone into the Springsteen/Mellencamp/heartlandish sorta rock'n'roll thing.
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In other engineering disciplines (ie civil, mechanical, etc), there are people to blame if a bridge collapses or a building falls over.
In the "software engineering" realm (and I use that term loosely), who gets blamed? Are individual coders going to start taking the fall for software that
blows up (literally)? Where might this lead?
I heard about this on the news this morning, and my first thought was "Was this a design or coding error?" Was the software specified incorrectly, or did the programmer implement it incorrectly (i.e. the canonical "it blew up because of an extra comma" error)
In other engineering disciplines, it's usually the case that the designer and the builders are distinctly different people, and it's easier to say whether the problem was a design issue ("They didn't plan to have enough rivets holding the bridge together") or a building issue ("They didn't put in all the rivets that were supposed to be there")
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4. I've heard that the union labor at McCormick is very corrupt. Evidently the exhibitors have to bribe the union help just to get their booths set up
and wired for power. It's not worth the hassle for alot of companies to pay off the union workers.
Corruption? In Chicago? I am shocked, SHOCKED SIR!, to hear such allegations!
It's always been my impression that the "terribly unhelpful union folks tied down by arcane regulations that require a union man to plug into an electrical socket" was de rigeur at these convention places. I know it was when I went along to a show in Baltimore at my last company.
If I understand correctly, the FSF guy felt that the license kinda made it seem like it wasn't entirely your choice to donate or not, and that it was sort of coercive, that YOU REALLY SHOULD DONATE.
I don't see it that way, but hey, it wouldn't be the first time I've disagreed w/RMS etc.
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For much of the non-Slashdot computer community, RedHat has become synonymous with Linux. That puts a huge burden of responsibility on RH's shoudlers as the standard bearer for Linux. What is RH doing to make sure that they are doing what's best for Linux, both as a piece of software and a community? How do we know that RH won't AOLify Linux? Or is that one of its goals?
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The magician working the Sun booth was great. Forcing a card into the deck is nothin', but stapling it to another card was pretty cool.
Bought a GNU Make book from the FSF folks, just to help 'em out. Got lectured (by Bradley Kuhn, I believe) on why Vim is inadequately free.
Was pleased to see some old-school trade show action goin' on: Two hot blondes in front of a Lamborghini. Of course, I have no idea what the company was.
Recruiting like crazy. Booths from upstate NY, Florida, Singapor and Irvine, CA urging us to move to their part of the world. Headhunters abounded.
Tchotchkes were definitely smaller this year. The coolest was a flashing superball, but that was about it.
I REALLY wanted to swap badges with someone and go check out the
Waste Age show across the hall, but the coworker I went with wasn't interested. Still, I got some great trade rags: Journal of Solid Waste Management; The Hauler; etc.
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So you're saying that naked girls are hotter?
That's a hell of a thesis statement. Anyone care to dispute it?
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There's nothing ironic about Christmas not being mentioned. Irony is, most commonly, "incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the normal or expected result".
Here are some other things that are not ironic:
And I don't how the hell to classify "ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife"
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Just like the Internet, software users route around obstacles.
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Whether I agree with that or not, I would suggest that a significant portion of porn purchase comes from people who ARE getting sex, and still like the porn anyway.
You make it sound like porn is strictly for the pimply-faced teens, or the 35-year-old living-at-home loser crowd.
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Can't get what? Porn? Or sex?
Assuming your statement is really "porn is for people who can't get sex", you're probably also thinking that people don't masturbate once they're in a committed relationship, too.
Which tells me that you have no idea what you're talking about.
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According to the Bible, yes, because having sex with anyone who is not your wife is adultery. This includes even thinking about sex with someone who is not your wife.
You choke the chicken while watching an episode of "Just Shoot Me" (David Spade, Laura San Giancomo, doesn't matter), you're committing adultery.
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I guess we know why the REALLY holler "Yahoo!" now...
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Wow, Bob's been entrenched in Linuxland for quite a while. Aldus Pagemaker has been Adobe Pagemaker for years now.
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People do that now. They're called Mary Kay consultants.
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And while we're on Vietnam, where would Rage Against The Machine be without the monk setting himself on fire?
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It's a leftover from quoting an entire song from that same album.
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Remember also that we are only months into King George II's reign. Whatever happens here will set the tone for the next years (or eight, God help us). He's gotta play tough or lose any position he's got.
Katz has far too simple a view of this. Saying "Sorry" in this case is the same as crying "Uncle". If we do that, we've lost this situation.
I'd suggest that Katz go see "Thirteen Days" and pay attention to the scene where they talk about how their actions are the new vocabulary of diplomacy, and see how it applies here.
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tr/Delorean/Heart of Gold/g;
would work... sigh... 8^)
I think you mean
s/Delorean/Heart of Gold/g;
The tr/// operator is translation, and s/// is substitution.
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For me, the reverse seems to be the risk: If gamers care about the product placement, they won't like the game.
I'm more of an RPG/RTS kinda gamer myself (i.e. not the "extreme snowboarding" or Crazy Taxi type of games that seem to be the target here), but if Starcraft II comes out with Coke logos, I'm gonna be really put off by it.
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If the soybean exhaust smells like fries, does the hemp exhaust smell like a Phish show?
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The Rainmakers refer to this, and other modern technological disasters, in "Rockin' At The T-Dance" off their first album.
The song title of "T-dance" plays off of the tea dance that was being held at the time of the collapse.
The whole album is lyrically brilliant, and would do well in the collection of anyone into the Springsteen/Mellencamp/heartlandish sorta rock'n'roll thing.
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In the "software engineering" realm (and I use that term loosely), who gets blamed? Are individual coders going to start taking the fall for software that blows up (literally)? Where might this lead?
I heard about this on the news this morning, and my first thought was "Was this a design or coding error?" Was the software specified incorrectly, or did the programmer implement it incorrectly (i.e. the canonical "it blew up because of an extra comma" error)
In other engineering disciplines, it's usually the case that the designer and the builders are distinctly different people, and it's easier to say whether the problem was a design issue ("They didn't plan to have enough rivets holding the bridge together") or a building issue ("They didn't put in all the rivets that were supposed to be there")
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Well, it IS Friday, and the weekly fish fry is a popular staple of restaurants in my neck of the worods.
I guess it's not too far removed from the Christmas Fish.
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Probably so that he gets more traffic to it.
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Corruption? In Chicago? I am shocked, SHOCKED SIR!, to hear such allegations!
It's always been my impression that the "terribly unhelpful union folks tied down by arcane regulations that require a union man to plug into an electrical socket" was de rigeur at these convention places. I know it was when I went along to a show in Baltimore at my last company.
But still... corruption? Here?
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At the very least, it's a First Amendment-given right.
Not unlike your First Amendment-given right to be disgusted with it all.
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I don't see it that way, but hey, it wouldn't be the first time I've disagreed w/RMS etc.
And he certainly didn't say anything about public domain.
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For much of the non-Slashdot computer community, RedHat has become synonymous with Linux. That puts a huge burden of responsibility on RH's shoudlers as the standard bearer for Linux. What is RH doing to make sure that they are doing what's best for Linux, both as a piece of software and a community? How do we know that RH won't AOLify Linux? Or is that one of its goals?
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It's not too late. Exhibits are open 10:00-16:00 today.
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