I'm sure that he'll eventually earn enough trust to have an e-mail account (and one day social media accounts) without me constantly looking over his virtual shoulder, but he'll need to earn it.
35 is the recommended age for today's parent/child relationship. Until then, they aren't quite ready.
I too enjoy how people that are around parents or have the same 'all my friends have children' and believe that makes them experts.
Never claimed to be an expert. I just really hate the "you don't have kids so you don't know anything" attitude. Sometimes it takes an outside view to get the whole picture. How does a parent know how their kids behave when they are not around for example.
Allow me to make it clear by citing an example. When I was 15 years old, may parents were the stupidest nastiest assholes in the world.
By the time I turned 21, it was amazing how much they had learned in those few short years.
Ever have kidney stones or given birth? No? Tell us all exactly how that feels, but only if you haven't experienced it.
You are no different than every other childless person who knows more about having children than people who actually have children. You won't believe that, but that is part of the proof.
Why do you people have such problems with the concept of judgement? "Drawing the line" is something that comes up all the time in law courts, even in murder cases. That is why you have judges - experienced and intelligent people - to judge where to draw the line rather than clerks with rule books presiding over courts.
While it's all jolly good fun to spend weeks in court, having your bank account drained by your lawyer, some folks might not want to be taken to court over a photo of their soon to be divorced wife in a bikini perhaps with the famous camel's to or erect nipples, posted on Facebook. That "private parts" provision is so broad you could drive the Costa Concordia though it.
Who knows, perhaps legal counsel doesn't cost anything on your side of the pond.
But over here, where the courts are used to bankrupt people - and yes, that might be a 'murrican problem - the law can be made a lot more specific. Harassment by publishing private pics depicting sexual activity without consent of the person in the photo.
And some times that might be a fully clothed person.
Even moreso, let's take feet. For some reason unknown to me, some folks find feet to be sexually stimulating. Harmless for certain. But if you took a photo of your wife or husband's naked feet, and published it without their consent, would you want to go in front of a judge who happens to share that same peccadillo?
"Guilty as charged, Mr. Broadstreet! And Mrs. Broadstreet, do you mind if we keep those photos in case we need to look up the evidence in this case again?" Some times it's hard under those robes.
At some point, some John's going to get pissed enough about this because he's getting divorced and loses everything that he rids the world of the asshole and everything's back to normal.
Remember kids: If the law fails to solve problems, people will.
Sad to say, that's absolutely correct.
And over what? It might come as a surprise to the lad, but people have sex.
Whether it is your violent scenario, or even more likely, now that he is gaining some notoriety, he is going to get a lot of attention from the media. There will be peopel looking into every part of his life.
People who do this sort of thing often tend to have some issues themselves. I've seen it all of my life, with gay bashing friends who are now gay, with family value politicians who turn out to be pedophiles. With highly moral politicians who refuse to do their job because of some moral apprehension, but are sleaze balls in truth.
I will remain forever wedded to Firefox, and if it goes away, then Chrome.
Firefox is just about to get the boot from my machines. I have membership (that I can't get out of) in some Yahoo groups. Due to a mail issue, I had to go to their web mail reader for a few days. Up past my NoScript and ad-blockers and all the other digi-condoms I have on my computers, the screen goes dark, and up pops a window trying to get me to integrate my Yahoo experience into my Firefox, then the screen scrolls down so I cannot simply hit the close button.
Sorry, Yahoo, sorry Firefox. Your Faustian deals don't win you anything but enmity. I don't want to see what some housewife in Pennsylvania found that is driving insurance companies crazy, nor do I want to make a NCAA basketball tourney bracket. I don't want I wanna read my mail. Right behind that roadblock you put up.
So it's going to be something else very soon.
Fortunately I can get the group mailings in the sane mail reader I use once again.
Some interesting info on what these assholes are demanding that we accept:
I went to a doctor's office and noticed that their door sign misspelled the name of their specialty. I pointed this out to the receptionist, not to be mean but because I thought they might want to fix it. We went outside together to look at it, then she said it'd been there for a decade and no one had mentioned it before.
Am I a jerk for trying to help a small business look more professional, or maybe even for noticing in the first place? If so, I can live with that.
Did you tell them that they were incompetent because of the typo?
Were you really pissed off because of the typo?
There lies the difference.
I've found 5 year old typos, and pointed them out. No one was pissed at me, even if embarrassed. In fact, I was thanked. Of course, I didn't call them assholes or anything like that,
I've been a proofreader/copy editor for around 60 books. I must be one of the world's biggest jerks. On the plus side, at least I got paid for noticing the mistakes, rather than just making a hobby out of it.
No - that's your job. One of my favorite scientists used to correct any mistakes I made in spelling, but he didn't do it as invalidating what I wrote. No doulbe space got by him either. He also critiqued what I wrote. I thanked him for both. He was a very positive influence who not only made certain that I spelled correctly, but that my writing was well honed.
People who correct spelling on the internet are not attempting to do anything positive. The "its" versus "it's" crowd are simply trying to invalidate you based on a ridiculous assumption.
When the spelling mistake changes the meaning of the sentence it's more worth to point it out. Sometimes a subtle error can get weird or hilarious.
True story. Some years ago while I was watching a football game, a hard tackle was made. The announcer yelled out "He literally blew him out of the stadium."
So unless they were making a gay pr0n on the sidelines, he should have been corrected to "figuratively", as per your example,
I'm not a stickler on spelling, because I know that people type out fast, sometimes there's autocorrect issues. But I cannot bear grammar mistakes. their/they're, less/fewer, (he or she)/they, composed/comprised. I will always be "that guy".
They are all a bunch of loosers!
Ironically, I had to fight autocorrect, it wanted to mis-spell that as "losers"
Because calling somebody a jerk is somehow nicer than helping people improve their spelling?
Because in the end, it is trying to invalidate their statements due to spelling errors.
Because in the quest for absolute spelling accuracy, the person who relies on it becomes a master at missing the point.
But most of all, it is a perfect example of having nothing to add to the conversation. I'll take a crappy speller with a cogent argument any day over an asshat who wants to change the discussion at hand into a very uninteresting argument of "its" versus "it's".
And if you don't understand that, you might guess which group you are in.
Don't you mean human beings WHO work at a university?
Yes, I am one of those Type A assholes, and I take great comfort in the fact that God made me that way.
It must be lonely being so awesome.
And so, so, brittle.
Becues wehn, pepole!! are sew ezy to pis of, we realy enjypzng them foo.78%?
Irony is just a bad word to use on Slashdot. It seems that too many people who read this site fail to understand the definition of Irony. In fact, I was previously trapped in the use of the word myself. The definition of irony is as follows according to dictionary.com:
The next study is about people who get all hung up on the definition of irony.
Wired works fine with adblock if also blacklisted by 'yesscript' (one click).
Works with all the 'anti-adblock' websites I've tried.
You do not even remotely understand. I am not going to go to websites that demand I bow to their demands as the price of admission.
They need me. I most certainly have no need for them. If Wired or Forbes disappears tomorrow?
Good. Perhaps the needed casualties that shows we are not going to accept the shit they are serving us. I'll raise a celebratory beer and enjoy every sip.
I just added Wired to my I will never see again list, along with Forbes.
There was a link at the bottom of this page to go there, it looked interesting so I clicked on it.
Up comes the demand that I disable my adblocker.
As they say in the old country - No fucking way.
So now Wired joins Forbes and a number of other sites that are on the list at the same level as goatse or tubgirl.
Having had the chance to do some browsing on another computer that allowed the whole shebang of intrusive crap the trackers and advertisers ram down our gullets, it's painfully slow - reminiscent of the days of 14.4 dialup. And worse than the last time I went bareback on the web.
And now that the Grandmas of the world are finding out that their computer can be "fixed" by blocking scripts and ads, look out. This cure is not just for geeks like me any more. Grandma net is remarkably quick and powerful. Even my wife's friends are hearing about this cool thing I installed on her laptop, and maybe Ol could install it on their computer too?
And that is what the ad/malware servers are afraid of.
For Forbes and Wired - sorry friends, your using a scorched earth policy of demanding I open up my computer to the wild world of malware you serve, in order to see your content - you can go straight to hell. Your content is no where good enough to allow me to do that.
So you're taking a stand on less than 1% of the population? If dialup isn't strictly extinct, it's an extremely endangered species.
I'm taking a stand on nothing. I was replying to a poster that said it was extinct. It's not. I pointed that out.
Supporting dialup users simply isn't a major concern for a lot of companies anymore.
Certainly not Windows 10 - where it is going to down;had and install updates no matter what you are on.
Most Linux distros as well - a good internet connection is a huge advantage during the install.
With about half of dialup users being poor (unable to afford broadband) or outright luddites (unwilling to change for any reason) according to that report, I can't really blame tech companies for ignoring them.
Frankly, I don't care a whole lot about dialup users anyhow. I was just pointing out an inaccuracy. It isn't extinct.
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I'm sure that he'll eventually earn enough trust to have an e-mail account (and one day social media accounts) without me constantly looking over his virtual shoulder, but he'll need to earn it.
35 is the recommended age for today's parent/child relationship. Until then, they aren't quite ready.
I too enjoy how people that are around parents or have the same 'all my friends have children' and believe that makes them experts.
Never claimed to be an expert. I just really hate the "you don't have kids so you don't know anything" attitude. Sometimes it takes an outside view to get the whole picture. How does a parent know how their kids behave when they are not around for example.
Allow me to make it clear by citing an example. When I was 15 years old, may parents were the stupidest nastiest assholes in the world.
By the time I turned 21, it was amazing how much they had learned in those few short years.
Ever have kidney stones or given birth? No? Tell us all exactly how that feels, but only if you haven't experienced it.
You are no different than every other childless person who knows more about having children than people who actually have children. You won't believe that, but that is part of the proof.
I too enjoy how people that are around parents or have the same 'all my friends have children' and believe that makes them experts.
They should hurry up and have children while they still know it all.
Why do you people have such problems with the concept of judgement? "Drawing the line" is something that comes up all the time in law courts, even in murder cases. That is why you have judges - experienced and intelligent people - to judge where to draw the line rather than clerks with rule books presiding over courts.
While it's all jolly good fun to spend weeks in court, having your bank account drained by your lawyer, some folks might not want to be taken to court over a photo of their soon to be divorced wife in a bikini perhaps with the famous camel's to or erect nipples, posted on Facebook. That "private parts" provision is so broad you could drive the Costa Concordia though it.
Who knows, perhaps legal counsel doesn't cost anything on your side of the pond.
But over here, where the courts are used to bankrupt people - and yes, that might be a 'murrican problem - the law can be made a lot more specific. Harassment by publishing private pics depicting sexual activity without consent of the person in the photo.
And some times that might be a fully clothed person.
Even moreso, let's take feet. For some reason unknown to me, some folks find feet to be sexually stimulating. Harmless for certain. But if you took a photo of your wife or husband's naked feet, and published it without their consent, would you want to go in front of a judge who happens to share that same peccadillo?
"Guilty as charged, Mr. Broadstreet! And Mrs. Broadstreet, do you mind if we keep those photos in case we need to look up the evidence in this case again?" Some times it's hard under those robes.
At some point, some John's going to get pissed enough about this because he's getting divorced and loses everything that he rids the world of the asshole and everything's back to normal.
Remember kids: If the law fails to solve problems, people will.
Sad to say, that's absolutely correct.
And over what? It might come as a surprise to the lad, but people have sex.
Whether it is your violent scenario, or even more likely, now that he is gaining some notoriety, he is going to get a lot of attention from the media. There will be peopel looking into every part of his life.
People who do this sort of thing often tend to have some issues themselves. I've seen it all of my life, with gay bashing friends who are now gay, with family value politicians who turn out to be pedophiles. With highly moral politicians who refuse to do their job because of some moral apprehension, but are sleaze balls in truth.
Dollars to donuts, this lad is tabloid fodder.
This asshole has his little johnson rubbed raw with all the wanking he's doing?
They lose money on every sale, but make up for it in volume.
So if they lose $1 on every sale, then selling 1 million of them is a million dollar loss. How does that "make up for it in volume"?
My statement was a Yogi Berra type joke. It's where you take something that might sound a little true, but is actually ridiculous.
Another example is one of his famous quotes about a particular restaurant - "No one goes there any more - its too crowded"
This scratch stuff is pretty versatile. Food, interesting objects, and now pretty women.
Remember the old farts you make fun of? The only thing that separates you from them is time.
I will remain forever wedded to Firefox, and if it goes away, then Chrome.
Firefox is just about to get the boot from my machines. I have membership (that I can't get out of) in some Yahoo groups. Due to a mail issue, I had to go to their web mail reader for a few days. Up past my NoScript and ad-blockers and all the other digi-condoms I have on my computers, the screen goes dark, and up pops a window trying to get me to integrate my Yahoo experience into my Firefox, then the screen scrolls down so I cannot simply hit the close button.
Sorry, Yahoo, sorry Firefox. Your Faustian deals don't win you anything but enmity. I don't want to see what some housewife in Pennsylvania found that is driving insurance companies crazy, nor do I want to make a NCAA basketball tourney bracket. I don't want I wanna read my mail. Right behind that roadblock you put up. So it's going to be something else very soon.
Fortunately I can get the group mailings in the sane mail reader I use once again.
Some interesting info on what these assholes are demanding that we accept:
http://www.extremetech.com/int... I wonder how this treating the user as the enemy is going to work out?
It doesn't block native ads, but if Trump wins it will have to block immigrant ads
I understand he plans to remove the torch from the Statue of Liberty, and replace it with her showing us her middle finger.
The hatefest on Slasdot goes into defcon 5
That's "double", mr. Olsoc. ... ;-)
AAAGH!, And I've been trying so hard to avoid the typos in this particular thread! If people check, I am the King of "teh".
Spelling and grammar are just social constructs. I do not bend to the will of others in this regard.
I have no respect for people who only know one way to spell a word.
I went to a doctor's office and noticed that their door sign misspelled the name of their specialty. I pointed this out to the receptionist, not to be mean but because I thought they might want to fix it. We went outside together to look at it, then she said it'd been there for a decade and no one had mentioned it before.
Am I a jerk for trying to help a small business look more professional, or maybe even for noticing in the first place? If so, I can live with that.
Did you tell them that they were incompetent because of the typo?
Were you really pissed off because of the typo? There lies the difference.
I've found 5 year old typos, and pointed them out. No one was pissed at me, even if embarrassed. In fact, I was thanked. Of course, I didn't call them assholes or anything like that,
I've been a proofreader/copy editor for around 60 books. I must be one of the world's biggest jerks. On the plus side, at least I got paid for noticing the mistakes, rather than just making a hobby out of it.
No - that's your job. One of my favorite scientists used to correct any mistakes I made in spelling, but he didn't do it as invalidating what I wrote. No doulbe space got by him either. He also critiqued what I wrote. I thanked him for both. He was a very positive influence who not only made certain that I spelled correctly, but that my writing was well honed.
People who correct spelling on the internet are not attempting to do anything positive. The "its" versus "it's" crowd are simply trying to invalidate you based on a ridiculous assumption.
When the spelling mistake changes the meaning of the sentence it's more worth to point it out. Sometimes a subtle error can get weird or hilarious.
True story. Some years ago while I was watching a football game, a hard tackle was made. The announcer yelled out "He literally blew him out of the stadium."
So unless they were making a gay pr0n on the sidelines, he should have been corrected to "figuratively", as per your example,
I'm not a stickler on spelling, because I know that people type out fast, sometimes there's autocorrect issues. But I cannot bear grammar mistakes. their/they're, less/fewer, (he or she)/they, composed/comprised. I will always be "that guy".
They are all a bunch of loosers!
Ironically, I had to fight autocorrect, it wanted to mis-spell that as "losers"
Because calling somebody a jerk is somehow nicer than helping people improve their spelling?
Because in the end, it is trying to invalidate their statements due to spelling errors.
Because in the quest for absolute spelling accuracy, the person who relies on it becomes a master at missing the point.
But most of all, it is a perfect example of having nothing to add to the conversation. I'll take a crappy speller with a cogent argument any day over an asshat who wants to change the discussion at hand into a very uninteresting argument of "its" versus "it's".
And if you don't understand that, you might guess which group you are in.
Don't you mean human beings WHO work at a university? Yes, I am one of those Type A assholes, and I take great comfort in the fact that God made me that way.
It must be lonely being so awesome.
And so, so, brittle.
Becues wehn, pepole!! are sew ezy to pis of, we realy enjypzng them foo.78%?
Irony is just a bad word to use on Slashdot. It seems that too many people who read this site fail to understand the definition of Irony. In fact, I was previously trapped in the use of the word myself. The definition of irony is as follows according to dictionary.com: The next study is about people who get all hung up on the definition of irony.
Wired works fine with adblock if also blacklisted by 'yesscript' (one click). Works with all the 'anti-adblock' websites I've tried.
You do not even remotely understand. I am not going to go to websites that demand I bow to their demands as the price of admission.
They need me. I most certainly have no need for them. If Wired or Forbes disappears tomorrow?
Good. Perhaps the needed casualties that shows we are not going to accept the shit they are serving us. I'll raise a celebratory beer and enjoy every sip.
There was a link at the bottom of this page to go there, it looked interesting so I clicked on it.
Up comes the demand that I disable my adblocker.
As they say in the old country - No fucking way.
So now Wired joins Forbes and a number of other sites that are on the list at the same level as goatse or tubgirl. Having had the chance to do some browsing on another computer that allowed the whole shebang of intrusive crap the trackers and advertisers ram down our gullets, it's painfully slow - reminiscent of the days of 14.4 dialup. And worse than the last time I went bareback on the web.
And now that the Grandmas of the world are finding out that their computer can be "fixed" by blocking scripts and ads, look out. This cure is not just for geeks like me any more. Grandma net is remarkably quick and powerful. Even my wife's friends are hearing about this cool thing I installed on her laptop, and maybe Ol could install it on their computer too?
And that is what the ad/malware servers are afraid of.
For Forbes and Wired - sorry friends, your using a scorched earth policy of demanding I open up my computer to the wild world of malware you serve, in order to see your content - you can go straight to hell. Your content is no where good enough to allow me to do that.
1) The german courts are ruling preferrentially in favor of german companies (surprise,it's captain obvious to the rescue)
All the companies involved in this case were German, you idiot.
So I guess he was right!
So you're taking a stand on less than 1% of the population? If dialup isn't strictly extinct, it's an extremely endangered species.
I'm taking a stand on nothing. I was replying to a poster that said it was extinct. It's not. I pointed that out.
Supporting dialup users simply isn't a major concern for a lot of companies anymore.
Certainly not Windows 10 - where it is going to down;had and install updates no matter what you are on.
Most Linux distros as well - a good internet connection is a huge advantage during the install.
With about half of dialup users being poor (unable to afford broadband) or outright luddites (unwilling to change for any reason) according to that report, I can't really blame tech companies for ignoring them.
Frankly, I don't care a whole lot about dialup users anyhow. I was just pointing out an inaccuracy. It isn't extinct.