I'm hoping... No, scratch that. I'm PRAYING that this was meant as a troll. What frightens me is that it might not be. I've met people who echo those sentiments (although with less arrogance [amazingly enough... =) ]) and I have to find one that I can stand for longer than a minute or so.
It's kinda too bad that the US didn't cultivate some manners or modesty along with the "wealth and opportunity".
And all this from the country where they ban evolution...
"We don't need no microchips/ Inside out hockey pucks..." -The Arrogant Worms
Users will also get angry that the software that they bought is useless and the supplier is doing nothing to defend it.
I can certainly understand being pissed that the software I bought isn't doing what I expected, but is hiding what is does the right answer?
"I don't like what your software is doing." "How 'bout I just don't tell you what's it's actually doing? Is that better?" "Ahhh.... Ignorance is bliss..."
Personally, I'll take agony if it means being informed.
Your question is the same as asking should we let young children swim alone? harm to a child physically or psychologically is still harm, regardless if they see porn or if they drown, both will have profound affects upon them.
Actually, it's more like asking if we should let our children read books alone. Should parents watch over their children's shoulders every time they read something, just in case what they read might be provocative? Condorcrap. I grant you that there are things online that shouldn't be seen by young eyes, but:
1) really young kids probably aren't going to be surfing for porn. 2) if they're old enough to be surfing for porn, they should be old enough to have been taught what is considered appropriate, and should be old enough to behave accordingly.
Now, do I think my 13-year old should be looking at nekkid chiks? No, but I can understand why he would want to, and I think it far better that he surf to his heart's content than that I stand watch over him whenever he's within 5ft of the box. If nothing else, it shows trust. Plus, it means that they don't have to feel even guiltier about trying to "get away with something". I swear, this puritanical Western society'll be the end of the human race yet... but that's another rant... =>
Now if Alex had this domain for months or years, he should have the right to keep, but 10 days, give me a break.
I'm sorry, but this has to be the dumbest I've ever heard (even on Slashdot!!). He shouldn't be allowed to keep his domain name because only picked it up a couple of days before someone else who would've wanted to use it if he hadn't gotten there first? Has your entire brain gone on vacation? Aside from the fact that it's a dumb argument in general, how are you ever going to prove a) the name was taken so someone else wouldn't get it, and/or b) that someone else wanted it? "Well, Your Honour, he stole the name I wanted. He just happened to register it first, but I really wanted to! Honest!!" Cripes Kate. So not only is it a completely redundant(x5) post, it ends with a Moron Moment (tm). Yeesh... </RANT>
I don't quite understand why folks are so steamed about him keeping the domain that he registered, just because it would be nice to give it to someone else. That's like expecting me to give my winning lottery ticket to the guy in line behind me because he wanted to win, too. I mean, sure it's a great gesture (not jester... ), but it's certainly not necessary, or even to be expected.
Actually, I would go even further. Even if it has no legitimate use, it should still be legal; make the illegitimate uses illegal and ban them.
That's quite possible the silliest thing I've ever heard. Ideally, it's a beautiful idea, but let's face it; if people have (previously) banned things that have no legitimate purpose, they're probably using them for illegitimate purposes. That's why there are things that are illegal to own now.
I don't know if I could even give it that high a rating... No explanations about where Mulder disappeared to (unless you count the idea that he somehow got sucked into some digital pseudo-limbo [and if that was the case, THAT was never explained]), how a simulation managed to cause RL damage, etc...
On top of that, things so massively unrealistic that the whole idea of suspension of disbelief was completely impossible - things like a character hopping programs, a video game "getting stronger" due to players' testosterone rushes, and the fact that nobody could turn the damn machine off... Well, it left me with a distinctly sour taste in my mouth...
I third the motion. I've had one for the last year and a half and although I still use a regular rectangle at the office, I much prefer the split. (Except when I'm only typing one-handed; then it's more of a pain in the ass... BECAUSE I'M DRINKING SOMETHING, YOU PERVERTS!! )
My girlfriend spent a summer as a typist and ended up getting/having tendonitis (or something) in both wrists after a couple of months; she switched to an ergonomic keyboard and things greatly improved.
Wow. Not even deliberate troll-bait gets replies like this...
I for one love that sig, because, like it or lump it, there do seem to be some attitudes (be it that OSS should be a religion, or that Gates is hell-spawn, or that Natalie Portman looks better naked and petrified) that are indelibly etched in the minds of the most vocal/.ers. Any comment seen as a slant towards one of these cherished beliefs becomes immediately subjected to totally unwarranted (and often unrelated) flames. Your post serves as a beautiful example...
Next time you feel the need to "defend"./ from the predations (is that a real word?) of others, take a deep breath first and figure out a) if there's really something to defend against, and b) if your going to sound like a rabid./ Open Source (TM) zealot.
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It's kinda too bad that the US didn't cultivate some manners or modesty along with the "wealth and opportunity".
And all this from the country where they ban evolution...
"We don't need no microchips/ Inside out hockey pucks..."
-The Arrogant Worms
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I can certainly understand being pissed that the software I bought isn't doing what I expected, but is hiding what is does the right answer?
"I don't like what your software is doing."
"How 'bout I just don't tell you what's it's actually doing? Is that better?"
"Ahhh.... Ignorance is bliss..."
Personally, I'll take agony if it means being informed.
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Actually, it's more like asking if we should let our children read books alone. Should parents watch over their children's shoulders every time they read something, just in case what they read might be provocative? Condorcrap. I grant you that there are things online that shouldn't be seen by young eyes, but:
1) really young kids probably aren't going to be surfing for porn.
2) if they're old enough to be surfing for porn, they should be old enough to have been taught what is considered appropriate, and should be old enough to behave accordingly.
Now, do I think my 13-year old should be looking at nekkid chiks? No, but I can understand why he would want to, and I think it far better that he surf to his heart's content than that I stand watch over him whenever he's within 5ft of the box. If nothing else, it shows trust. Plus, it means that they don't have to feel even guiltier about trying to "get away with something". I swear, this puritanical Western society'll be the end of the human race yet... but that's another rant... =>
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Hmmm... It's just as I suspected, Watson...
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...learned to thnik before speaking...
...and spell before typing, and preview before submitting...
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Visitors from the brain-slug planet?
Methinks someone hasn't been wearing their helmet again... LOL
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Geez. I keep thinking it's the other way around; Ricky Martin leads to suffering...
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Now if Alex had this domain for months or years, he should have the right to keep, but 10 days, give me a break.
I'm sorry, but this has to be the dumbest I've ever heard (even on Slashdot!!). He shouldn't be allowed to keep his domain name because only picked it up a couple of days before someone else who would've wanted to use it if he hadn't gotten there first? Has your entire brain gone on vacation? Aside from the fact that it's a dumb argument in general, how are you ever going to prove a) the name was taken so someone else wouldn't get it, and/or b) that someone else wanted it?
"Well, Your Honour, he stole the name I wanted. He just happened to register it first, but I really wanted to! Honest!!"
Cripes Kate. So not only is it a completely redundant(x5) post, it ends with a Moron Moment (tm). Yeesh... </RANT>
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I don't quite understand why folks are so steamed about him keeping the domain that he registered, just because it would be nice to give it to someone else. That's like expecting me to give my winning lottery ticket to the guy in line behind me because he wanted to win, too. I mean, sure it's a great gesture (not jester... ), but it's certainly not necessary, or even to be expected.
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Does this actually make things clearer? Maybe it's just too early, but yeesh...
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That's quite possible the silliest thing I've ever heard. Ideally, it's a beautiful idea, but let's face it; if people have (previously) banned things that have no legitimate purpose, they're probably using them for illegitimate purposes. That's why there are things that are illegal to own now.
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Why is it an exception when the year is divisible by 100? I always thought 100 was divisible by 4...
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I don't know if I could even give it that high a rating... No explanations about where Mulder disappeared to (unless you count the idea that he somehow got sucked into some digital pseudo-limbo [and if that was the case, THAT was never explained]), how a simulation managed to cause RL damage, etc...
... Well, it left me with a distinctly sour taste in my mouth...
On top of that, things so massively unrealistic that the whole idea of suspension of disbelief was completely impossible - things like a character hopping programs, a video game "getting stronger" due to players' testosterone rushes, and the fact that nobody could turn the damn machine off
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Screw you, hippie. I'm going home.
That post sucked ass.
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Am I the only one who used E-S-D-F rather than W-A-S-D? I find it gives access to more keys than WASD and maps more intuitively than ASDF...
Anyway, to stay marginally on topic, I find the twist to the keys on the ergo keyboards really do help in DMs.
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I third the motion. I've had one for the last year and a half and although I still use a regular rectangle at the office, I much prefer the split. (Except when I'm only typing one-handed; then it's more of a pain in the ass... BECAUSE I'M DRINKING SOMETHING, YOU PERVERTS!! )
My girlfriend spent a summer as a typist and ended up getting/having tendonitis (or something) in both wrists after a couple of months; she switched to an ergonomic keyboard and things greatly improved.
Just my take on it.
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If your cheerleaders are sheep, no wonder you're giggling...
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I happen to like kittie porn... Does this mean that all my cats now have to wear clothes?
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Sounds kinda like James Bond flicks... ("The World Is Not Enough", anyone?) Of course, he's a gadgetally-enhanced Brit, not an All-American...
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Wow. Not even deliberate troll-bait gets replies like this...
/.ers. Any comment seen as a slant towards one of these cherished beliefs becomes immediately subjected to totally unwarranted (and often unrelated) flames. Your post serves as a beautiful example...
./ from the predations (is that a real word?) of others, take a deep breath first and figure out a) if there's really something to defend against, and b) if your going to sound like a rabid ./ Open Source (TM) zealot.
I for one love that sig, because, like it or lump it, there do seem to be some attitudes (be it that OSS should be a religion, or that Gates is hell-spawn, or that Natalie Portman looks better naked and petrified) that are indelibly etched in the minds of the most vocal
Next time you feel the need to "defend"
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An Integer of the form N=2n, where n is an Integer. The even numbers are therefore ..., -4, -2, 0, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, ...
...only holds true if n=0 (an integer) which can only be true if n=2m, which only holds true if m=0 (an integer) which can only be true if m=2j, which...
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I think his name was Wireton Willie, but I'm not positive...
Of course, there's always Punxatawny Phil...
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If you introduce inifnity into your equation, don't you then need to work with limits?
i.e. 5/x = 0 as x -> infinity (which it true)?
Keep in mind that calc101 is a looong way back...
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Yep, y'are. The odd date was the last one for another millenium+, today's even date is the first one in 1000+ years. Yeesh...
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