I wish someone would explain this to, you know, every person in charge of a business ever. "We didn't have growth this quarter! We're fucked!" "The economy is in the shitter, everyone's fucked man! Calm down."
Okay then. When are you open source cocksuckers gonna get a working version of Adblock for my goddamned brain? If I hear "4G Wonderland" one more time I'm going to start doing drive-bys on T-Mobile stores.
Sure, but what about when some sort of vulnerability is found in iOS? It's not like Apple is somehow magically invulnerable to software security issues. At least with a lot of Android phones you can do something about it without getting too much shit (if any) from your carrier.
Besides, all it would take is one company to say "No".
FIOS is just *now* getting rolled out to my city. (We're only the most populous city in New Jersey. I guess Verizon had to figure out how to run the wire through all the garbage piles and rat nests.) If Verizon stated plainly that they would never have usage-based billing while Cablevision said they would, I'd switch so fast that my modem's head would spin.
I grabbed the first link I could find that looked remotely legible.It's just my luck that that was the day commentators decided to actually read a linked article on Slashdot.
Next thing you know, we'll be getting first posts that are sensible and relevant to the article. The horror!
Lets not forget that it was approved by a slashdot editor as well. This is yet another of many reasons why I don't bother logging in anymore.
Thanks for the clean link.
You don't get it man. They do this stuff on purpose. They deliberately misquote and mirepresent stories in order to generate discussion. It's all about increasing the traffic as much as possible! IT'S A CONSP- *hurk*
Ha ha. Just kidding. I enjoyed the story immensely. I live for reading Slashdot and it's masterful articles.
I really think we need a lot of political reform to keep this stuff from happening.
Firstly, we'd need to make sure legislators aren't too far away from the office (so to speak). If you had a job where you had to show up in person every day, would they hire you if you lived several hundred miles away? Therefore legislators should live within a reasonable distance of wherever it is that they have to meet during their term.
Secondly, we need to slow things down. I know Congress can often be cumbersome, but more often than not we have issues where laws get passed really quickly with little to no review. There should be some sort of metric that has a delay on a bill based on its length and scope, and that a bill cannot be amended once it is in this grace period.
As an example, a bill is three pages long. The bill is amended, debated, etc. per usual. Once this process is complete, it's "locked in" - completely unalterable - for a set period of time based on pages, word count, or both. The longer the bill, the more days there has to be a delay. This gives legislators the opportunity to actually read the bill and consider the consequences.
While I'm dreaming, I'd also like to see hard term limits for congressmen and senators, none of that "holding multiple jobs while you're doing federal public service" nonsense, and a cap of how many bills can be running through Congress at one time.
Let me fill you in on one of the real reasons recycling happens. Environmentally, recycling anything besides metal is not always all that green. For instance, recycling paper often involves a lot more power than making new paper, not to mention all of the nasty detergents and chemicals that can end up leaking into the water table.
Financially, recycling is fantastic. First, your city will either need to make a contract with an existing plant or just outright build a large new one. This results in huge contracts going to big companies (who don't mind a little financial tit-for-tat). Politicians look good by creating jobs in the area (either because an existing plant has to hire new people, or a new plant has to be built).
Secondly, I've found some people under the impression that if your recyclables are incorrectly sorted they will just not get picked up by the truck. This is how it works in many places, but a few cities (such as my own, Newark, NJ) have done something altogether more insidious. Sanitation men will cut open garbage bags with a knife and inspect the contents. If they find even *one* recyclable in there - an errant plastic spoon or bottle, a coke can, the comics page - a red sticker gets slapped on the bag and your house gets noted in a log. You're now fined $500 for garbage that's left in front of your house (whether or not you put it there, leaving the onus on the homeowner to make sure his neighbors aren't dumping on their property) and the bag is also left there as a final insult. I've had to be somewhat draconian with my friends who throw a soda can or something in the garbage out of habit (because they live in an area that doesn't recycle).
You think it's bad now? Wait until your city enacts this and really pushes for the sanitation guys to start bringing in some money. No matter how good you are at sorting beforehand, you will get caught by that odd piece of metal or plastic that somehow ended up in the garbage.
Let's say you offer a service (in the case of Scientology, it would be metaphysical bullshit (like most religions IMO)). Posit that said service is something like a club where you can engage in a few activities as well as attached extras like a restaurant and bar. There's nothing really special about most of this stuff, but if you package it all together, make it look nice, hire a bunch of security, and act pretentious as hell you can call it a "Country Club" and collect tens of thousands of dollars a year per person because they will buy into the bullshit.
Hey man, at least you didn't go the whole "it's not as fast, garbage, blah blah" route. There's a man flying with basically a wing and engines strapped to his back, and all people seem to do is shit all over this awesome feat of engineering rather than appreciate it in any way.
Firstly, although they are (questionably) made largely of pork or beef, we call "pig-dogs" "hot dogs". Secondly, they are usually already dead unless you go to a specialty place like Lennie's Live Hot Dogs in Perth Amboy, NJ. Lastly, while they are not the highest quality of food, there's no real reason to be so angry at one of many staples of American cuisine.
Whether he's opting for self-employment or looking for a job in an existing company, he needs two important things:
1) Certifications Yes, I think many of us would agree that they're a racket about as big as textbooks in the education world, but they're the best way to get an employer to believe that you have the skills you say you do. A CompSci degree is nice, but have MCSE, A+, Java, etc. certs would probably be just as (if not more) valuable. It says to your employer (or customers, if you go the small business route) that you know enough about this stuff to get certified. Would you go to a doctor who didn't have a medical diploma on the wall or a lawyer who hadn't passed the bar?
2) A Portfolio The poster says he's "creative" but lacks stuff on paper. What does he want to do? Web design? Then he should design a dozen or so mock-up websites (graphics, code, and all, fully commented). Software design? He should make a variety of smaller programs showcasing varying functionality. Just graphic arts? A variety of different graphic projects, from logos to advertising campaigns to just plain pretty artwork will do. A portfolio will compliment certifications. The certs show an employer that you've passed the industry standard tests for knowledge. A portfolio will provide examples of how you can apply the knowledge relevant to the field you want to work in.
Neither of these things would require a hell of a lot of time. If he has the knowledge he says he has, he can just drop the money and take the certs. Programs or graphic arts or whatever to flesh out the portfolio can be done in a few weeks at most (at a leisurely pace), and said portfolio can be constantly refined and grown in his leisure time. These are things that he can do now that will have a very real impact on his career prospects.
Slashdot Mirror
What the actual fuck is this?
Is some CIA agent in Tangiers using Slashdot as a communication outpost, or did someone forget to take their meds today?
I wish someone would explain this to, you know, every person in charge of a business ever. "We didn't have growth this quarter! We're fucked!" "The economy is in the shitter, everyone's fucked man! Calm down."
Okay then. When are you open source cocksuckers gonna get a working version of Adblock for my goddamned brain? If I hear "4G Wonderland" one more time I'm going to start doing drive-bys on T-Mobile stores.
Sure, but what about when some sort of vulnerability is found in iOS? It's not like Apple is somehow magically invulnerable to software security issues. At least with a lot of Android phones you can do something about it without getting too much shit (if any) from your carrier.
*cough* "in general". I guess they have a good sense of humor but poor pun detection.
It was no parody. My brilliant linguisticalatic and grammetical skills show that that are the proper usage of "its". All hail Slashdot.
Now all we need to do is get term limits on those bastards so the next Congress isn't made up of the same people on the current Congress.
Besides, all it would take is one company to say "No".
FIOS is just *now* getting rolled out to my city. (We're only the most populous city in New Jersey. I guess Verizon had to figure out how to run the wire through all the garbage piles and rat nests.) If Verizon stated plainly that they would never have usage-based billing while Cablevision said they would, I'd switch so fast that my modem's head would spin.
Why spend money to upgrade the network when you can make money by charging the heavy users instead?
I'm pretty sure they see that as a major benefit.
"People will be so busy trying to keep their bill low that they won't bitch about slow speeds anymore!"
"Jim is at Wilton Public Library."
"Jim has added Mrs. Roswell as a friend."
"Jim has an erection."
And the only time the screen will be filled with brown is if we play a modern FPS game!
I grabbed the first link I could find that looked remotely legible.It's just my luck that that was the day commentators decided to actually read a linked article on Slashdot.
Next thing you know, we'll be getting first posts that are sensible and relevant to the article. The horror!
Geeks in general have a good sense of humor.
Lets not forget that it was approved by a slashdot editor as well. This is yet another of many reasons why I don't bother logging in anymore.
Thanks for the clean link.
You don't get it man. They do this stuff on purpose. They deliberately misquote and mirepresent stories in order to generate discussion. It's all about increasing the traffic as much as possible! IT'S A CONSP- *hurk*
Ha ha. Just kidding. I enjoyed the story immensely. I live for reading Slashdot and it's masterful articles.
I really think we need a lot of political reform to keep this stuff from happening.
Firstly, we'd need to make sure legislators aren't too far away from the office (so to speak). If you had a job where you had to show up in person every day, would they hire you if you lived several hundred miles away? Therefore legislators should live within a reasonable distance of wherever it is that they have to meet during their term.
Secondly, we need to slow things down. I know Congress can often be cumbersome, but more often than not we have issues where laws get passed really quickly with little to no review. There should be some sort of metric that has a delay on a bill based on its length and scope, and that a bill cannot be amended once it is in this grace period.
As an example, a bill is three pages long. The bill is amended, debated, etc. per usual. Once this process is complete, it's "locked in" - completely unalterable - for a set period of time based on pages, word count, or both. The longer the bill, the more days there has to be a delay. This gives legislators the opportunity to actually read the bill and consider the consequences.
While I'm dreaming, I'd also like to see hard term limits for congressmen and senators, none of that "holding multiple jobs while you're doing federal public service" nonsense, and a cap of how many bills can be running through Congress at one time.
Give it time.
Let me fill you in on one of the real reasons recycling happens. Environmentally, recycling anything besides metal is not always all that green. For instance, recycling paper often involves a lot more power than making new paper, not to mention all of the nasty detergents and chemicals that can end up leaking into the water table.
Financially, recycling is fantastic. First, your city will either need to make a contract with an existing plant or just outright build a large new one. This results in huge contracts going to big companies (who don't mind a little financial tit-for-tat). Politicians look good by creating jobs in the area (either because an existing plant has to hire new people, or a new plant has to be built).
Secondly, I've found some people under the impression that if your recyclables are incorrectly sorted they will just not get picked up by the truck. This is how it works in many places, but a few cities (such as my own, Newark, NJ) have done something altogether more insidious. Sanitation men will cut open garbage bags with a knife and inspect the contents. If they find even *one* recyclable in there - an errant plastic spoon or bottle, a coke can, the comics page - a red sticker gets slapped on the bag and your house gets noted in a log. You're now fined $500 for garbage that's left in front of your house (whether or not you put it there, leaving the onus on the homeowner to make sure his neighbors aren't dumping on their property) and the bag is also left there as a final insult. I've had to be somewhat draconian with my friends who throw a soda can or something in the garbage out of habit (because they live in an area that doesn't recycle).
You think it's bad now? Wait until your city enacts this and really pushes for the sanitation guys to start bringing in some money. No matter how good you are at sorting beforehand, you will get caught by that odd piece of metal or plastic that somehow ended up in the garbage.
I don't get it.
I do. They shoot for the "elite rich" angle.
Let's say you offer a service (in the case of Scientology, it would be metaphysical bullshit (like most religions IMO)). Posit that said service is something like a club where you can engage in a few activities as well as attached extras like a restaurant and bar. There's nothing really special about most of this stuff, but if you package it all together, make it look nice, hire a bunch of security, and act pretentious as hell you can call it a "Country Club" and collect tens of thousands of dollars a year per person because they will buy into the bullshit.
then you get incinerated by a Predator drone.
A friendly Predator drone.
I often find better content and discussions on Twitter.
Twitter bothers me sometimes. It's rather difficult to have an intellectually satisfying conversation when you're limited to only 140 charac
Sadly, the only time spice flows for me is when the Colonel's 11 herbs and spices are flowing out my thermal exhaust port.
Hey man, at least you didn't go the whole "it's not as fast, garbage, blah blah" route. There's a man flying with basically a wing and engines strapped to his back, and all people seem to do is shit all over this awesome feat of engineering rather than appreciate it in any way.
"Subject had a three e-mail conversation with mailer daemon. Subject was subsequently flagged for alcoholism and/or mental instability."
I'm sorry, you appear to be a bit confused.
Firstly, although they are (questionably) made largely of pork or beef, we call "pig-dogs" "hot dogs". Secondly, they are usually already dead unless you go to a specialty place like Lennie's Live Hot Dogs in Perth Amboy, NJ. Lastly, while they are not the highest quality of food, there's no real reason to be so angry at one of many staples of American cuisine.
Whether he's opting for self-employment or looking for a job in an existing company, he needs two important things:
1) Certifications Yes, I think many of us would agree that they're a racket about as big as textbooks in the education world, but they're the best way to get an employer to believe that you have the skills you say you do. A CompSci degree is nice, but have MCSE, A+, Java, etc. certs would probably be just as (if not more) valuable. It says to your employer (or customers, if you go the small business route) that you know enough about this stuff to get certified. Would you go to a doctor who didn't have a medical diploma on the wall or a lawyer who hadn't passed the bar?
2) A Portfolio The poster says he's "creative" but lacks stuff on paper. What does he want to do? Web design? Then he should design a dozen or so mock-up websites (graphics, code, and all, fully commented). Software design? He should make a variety of smaller programs showcasing varying functionality. Just graphic arts? A variety of different graphic projects, from logos to advertising campaigns to just plain pretty artwork will do. A portfolio will compliment certifications. The certs show an employer that you've passed the industry standard tests for knowledge. A portfolio will provide examples of how you can apply the knowledge relevant to the field you want to work in.
Neither of these things would require a hell of a lot of time. If he has the knowledge he says he has, he can just drop the money and take the certs. Programs or graphic arts or whatever to flesh out the portfolio can be done in a few weeks at most (at a leisurely pace), and said portfolio can be constantly refined and grown in his leisure time. These are things that he can do now that will have a very real impact on his career prospects.
I think I may love you and/or be gay for you, depending on your gender and sexual orientation and/or identity.