It still amazes me to this day that Slashdot can go and fuck up what basically amounts to forum software along with a karma system. This has been done successfully for decades. It takes a whole new class of incompetence to continually screw things up like they've been doing.
Every single time Slashdot "updates", it gets slower and more unusable. There's more bugs that don't get fixed. It literally feels like you're fighting with the interface to get it to do what you want it to.
A friend of mine used to be an Assistant Manager for a company. Let's call it "Madio Shack". His District Manager insisted that he listen in on a teleconference involving the DM and server local managers - maybe the DM was trying to groom him to be a Manager? (This, by the way, was something he clearly did not want.)
The major problem about this teleconference was that it was taking place at around 21:00 on a Friday night. During a Dragonforce concert. I popped outside every five minutes or so and checked up on him, and he basically had this look on his face of "They're still going!". After about 20 minutes of this shit, I tapped him on the shoulder and he muted the phone.
"How's your battery doing?" I said.
"Fine," he replied.
"No it's not, it's dead."
"No, I have plent-"
That's where he got a smile on his face and disconnected the battery from the back of his phone. "Oops".
Yes, and America drops food after we bomb the shit out of an area. No matter how desperately these people need the food, it doesn't make up for the bombing.
Yes, we know. Generally when you can categorize some sort of political idea as "completely retarded" (i.e. drug prohibition), I would wager that the vast majority of Slashdotters are against it. You're preaching to the choir.
The problem isn't us. (Yes, I know that's a thing a lot of Americans say oh so unironically.) I'm talking about us here. As stupid as some of us here can be, I think we're more likely to write our congress critter, protest, come up with some new and groundbreaking idea, etc. We're all about the math - we're horrified at the cost in both blood and money to basically shift profits into the pockets of a few people (not to mention the police who often get to keep a lot of the stuff they seize). We're all about the science - we think it's downright laughable (when it's not depressing) that marijuana is classified as a Schedule I drug in America (which means that the FDA states that it has no tangible benefit medicinally whatsoever and that it's very dangerous). We're all about the goddamned common sense - a system of law where it is practically encouraged for police to steal seized evidence and work in collusion with a suspect is atrocious.
What we'd really need to do is get the message out to your average Joe, the guy who thinks that nothing bad is really happening to the people of Mexico. I'd say most people in America don't even know about the widespread violence in Mexico right now - any time you see anything about it on the telly, it's a grand total of a few seconds as most.
I truely, sincerely apologize for us basically raping your country due to our greed, and I really wish more of us would get off of our asses and do something about it.
Actually, compared to a debit card a credit card is pretty safe. Debit cards are easier to get but you lack many of the protections (like chargeback) that credit cards offer.
Be careful all in all - not having a credit card might actually bite you in the ass if you ever decide to buy a home or get some type of loan. No credit is practically worse than bad credit.
Thankfully in the age of digital distribution, publishers will matter less and less. They're more like venture capitalists than publishers nowadays, but stuff like Steam, GoG, etc. makes it easy for a small studio to self-publish and put out something interesting without having to kowtow to some idiot in marketing who wants you to up the cup size of the female lead to a FF.
I was going to post a comic from Concerned, a really, really good HL2 comic made with Garry's mod, and it seems the domain is now squatted. I lament the loss of a great piece of internets humor. =(
Take any one of the leading men in that film. Are you really expecting to walk into film featuring Stallone or Crews or Lundgren and get high art? It's a goddamned action movie. Does a lot of shit blow up? Check. Does the body count go into the double or even triple digits? Check.
I actually enjoy action movies, because it's trashy, violent entertainment. I usually figure out the end plot of most dramas, so I need either comedy or lots of explosions to distract me.
Dashboard cameras have probably caught just as many officers doing illegal things as criminals.
Cameras and wireless transmitters are also far, far less expensive nowadays.
Police should be required to wear a shoulder and head camera that records to a black box in their vehicle or a secure server stored somewhere out of the police's purview. Tampering with or destroying the black box or camera results in dismissal.
It has me confused with my father (same name, except I have a middle name and he doesn't). They get my middle initial wrong. The weird information hybrid of my father and I are has a lot of things wrong. Apparently "our" hobbies include travel and cooking (I travel a handful of times a year by car, usually only for a weekend), and the most complex thing either of us have cooked is frozen waffles. It says we're a Capricorn, but I'm a Capricorn and my father is an Aquarius. It also says we've lived in our house for X years, when it's really about twice as long as that.
There's other entries on there with a similar name in the same city... nobody by that name lives or has ever lived at those addresses as far as I know. Apparently Spokeo is hilariously incompetent when it comes to gathering information, at least in regards to me..
This is a difficult problem considering the vagueness of language. IMO, laws should protect the greater good as well as individual rights as evenly as possible. Some examples:
Let's say a man is speeding down the highway. A state patrolman pulls him over for doing 90 in a 65 zone. The trooper goes up to the window and reveals his pregnant wife in the back seat, currently in labor. Does the patrolman write him out a ticket, or let him go? Following the letter of the law, he'd get a ticket, and potentially lose his driver's license. But there's almost no peace officer who would give out a ticket in that situation - it's rather common for them to escort the car the rest of the way, siren's blaring.
Another example. Someone breaks into your home with a knife and threatens to rape and murder your daughter. You shoot and kill him. The prosecutor (in many states) is compelled to arrest you at least for manslaughter - they often have no choice in the manner, no discretion. Even though the odds are that the jury would acquit (despite the blatant violation of the letter of the law), he doesn't have a choice in the matter.
As much as there's the chance for corruption (i.e. selective enforcement of law like only pulling over dark skinned people for speeding), I think it's probably better than mandatory enforcement. I've personally seen more bad then good when mandatory rules supersede the ability of a judge, prosecutor, patrolman, or jury to let someone slide. Best example: mandatory minimum sentencing for drug possession (which thankfully are being repealed in a lot of places).
Agreed. The only comics I can enjoy are Deadpool and Squirrel Girl, simply because they're outlandish and ludicrous.
Imagine how much more interesting Batman or Spider-Man would be if the villains were put down for good. You'd have constantly new stuff, you could build things up into these big, interested arcs... but we'll never see it happen.
I agree with you on that, but you're comparing Apples and Oranges. The CIA's job isn't to bring about positive change in the world. It's to serve the best interests of whoever happens to be in charge of them at the time. Kill this guy, destabilize this country, get this person to defect, etc.
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It still amazes me to this day that Slashdot can go and fuck up what basically amounts to forum software along with a karma system. This has been done successfully for decades. It takes a whole new class of incompetence to continually screw things up like they've been doing.
Every single time Slashdot "updates", it gets slower and more unusable. There's more bugs that don't get fixed. It literally feels like you're fighting with the interface to get it to do what you want it to.
A friend of mine used to be an Assistant Manager for a company. Let's call it "Madio Shack". His District Manager insisted that he listen in on a teleconference involving the DM and server local managers - maybe the DM was trying to groom him to be a Manager? (This, by the way, was something he clearly did not want.)
The major problem about this teleconference was that it was taking place at around 21:00 on a Friday night. During a Dragonforce concert. I popped outside every five minutes or so and checked up on him, and he basically had this look on his face of "They're still going!". After about 20 minutes of this shit, I tapped him on the shoulder and he muted the phone.
"How's your battery doing?" I said.
"Fine," he replied.
"No it's not, it's dead."
"No, I have plent-"
That's where he got a smile on his face and disconnected the battery from the back of his phone. "Oops".
Friends help friends have a social life.
Yes. A quick literature search shows reviews and articles on lignin degrading bacteria at least as far back as 1955.
I know Slashdot is pretty slow to the game sometimes, but 56 1/2 years has got to be a record.
Yes, and America drops food after we bomb the shit out of an area. No matter how desperately these people need the food, it doesn't make up for the bombing.
Looks about five or six inches long.
I don't think it's redundant. It's useful to distinguish how someone is retarded, such as Creationist, Republican, or Cubs Fan.
Hi there. His name is Dug. He made this slashdot account so he may post- TROLL!
Yes, we know. Generally when you can categorize some sort of political idea as "completely retarded" (i.e. drug prohibition), I would wager that the vast majority of Slashdotters are against it. You're preaching to the choir.
The problem isn't us. (Yes, I know that's a thing a lot of Americans say oh so unironically.) I'm talking about us here. As stupid as some of us here can be, I think we're more likely to write our congress critter, protest, come up with some new and groundbreaking idea, etc. We're all about the math - we're horrified at the cost in both blood and money to basically shift profits into the pockets of a few people (not to mention the police who often get to keep a lot of the stuff they seize). We're all about the science - we think it's downright laughable (when it's not depressing) that marijuana is classified as a Schedule I drug in America (which means that the FDA states that it has no tangible benefit medicinally whatsoever and that it's very dangerous). We're all about the goddamned common sense - a system of law where it is practically encouraged for police to steal seized evidence and work in collusion with a suspect is atrocious.
What we'd really need to do is get the message out to your average Joe, the guy who thinks that nothing bad is really happening to the people of Mexico. I'd say most people in America don't even know about the widespread violence in Mexico right now - any time you see anything about it on the telly, it's a grand total of a few seconds as most.
I truely, sincerely apologize for us basically raping your country due to our greed, and I really wish more of us would get off of our asses and do something about it.
Actually, compared to a debit card a credit card is pretty safe. Debit cards are easier to get but you lack many of the protections (like chargeback) that credit cards offer.
Be careful all in all - not having a credit card might actually bite you in the ass if you ever decide to buy a home or get some type of loan. No credit is practically worse than bad credit.
Thankfully in the age of digital distribution, publishers will matter less and less. They're more like venture capitalists than publishers nowadays, but stuff like Steam, GoG, etc. makes it easy for a small studio to self-publish and put out something interesting without having to kowtow to some idiot in marketing who wants you to up the cup size of the female lead to a FF.
Might be difficult. I don't think dogs get excited when you put a leash and collar on them.
Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na...
QED? What's that, some sorta Muslim terrorist prayer? Get outta my country with your Qalifa's and Qurans and all those crazy Q words!
I was going to post a comic from Concerned, a really, really good HL2 comic made with Garry's mod, and it seems the domain is now squatted. I lament the loss of a great piece of internets humor. =(
Take any one of the leading men in that film. Are you really expecting to walk into film featuring Stallone or Crews or Lundgren and get high art? It's a goddamned action movie. Does a lot of shit blow up? Check. Does the body count go into the double or even triple digits? Check.
I actually enjoy action movies, because it's trashy, violent entertainment. I usually figure out the end plot of most dramas, so I need either comedy or lots of explosions to distract me.
Pfft, noobs! The best book is Impractical Cryptography by #5fgj@!53!@. You can't even read it without breaking the cypher (key sold separately).
Dashboard cameras have probably caught just as many officers doing illegal things as criminals.
Cameras and wireless transmitters are also far, far less expensive nowadays.
Police should be required to wear a shoulder and head camera that records to a black box in their vehicle or a secure server stored somewhere out of the police's purview. Tampering with or destroying the black box or camera results in dismissal.
You're my hero.
I did. It was hilariously wrong.
It has me confused with my father (same name, except I have a middle name and he doesn't). They get my middle initial wrong. The weird information hybrid of my father and I are has a lot of things wrong. Apparently "our" hobbies include travel and cooking (I travel a handful of times a year by car, usually only for a weekend), and the most complex thing either of us have cooked is frozen waffles. It says we're a Capricorn, but I'm a Capricorn and my father is an Aquarius. It also says we've lived in our house for X years, when it's really about twice as long as that.
There's other entries on there with a similar name in the same city... nobody by that name lives or has ever lived at those addresses as far as I know. Apparently Spokeo is hilariously incompetent when it comes to gathering information, at least in regards to me..
This is a difficult problem considering the vagueness of language. IMO, laws should protect the greater good as well as individual rights as evenly as possible. Some examples:
Let's say a man is speeding down the highway. A state patrolman pulls him over for doing 90 in a 65 zone. The trooper goes up to the window and reveals his pregnant wife in the back seat, currently in labor. Does the patrolman write him out a ticket, or let him go? Following the letter of the law, he'd get a ticket, and potentially lose his driver's license. But there's almost no peace officer who would give out a ticket in that situation - it's rather common for them to escort the car the rest of the way, siren's blaring.
Another example. Someone breaks into your home with a knife and threatens to rape and murder your daughter. You shoot and kill him. The prosecutor (in many states) is compelled to arrest you at least for manslaughter - they often have no choice in the manner, no discretion. Even though the odds are that the jury would acquit (despite the blatant violation of the letter of the law), he doesn't have a choice in the matter.
As much as there's the chance for corruption (i.e. selective enforcement of law like only pulling over dark skinned people for speeding), I think it's probably better than mandatory enforcement. I've personally seen more bad then good when mandatory rules supersede the ability of a judge, prosecutor, patrolman, or jury to let someone slide. Best example: mandatory minimum sentencing for drug possession (which thankfully are being repealed in a lot of places).
New Hampshire has one of the lowest tax burdens in the country and a lot of other good stuff too.
Agreed. The only comics I can enjoy are Deadpool and Squirrel Girl, simply because they're outlandish and ludicrous.
Imagine how much more interesting Batman or Spider-Man would be if the villains were put down for good. You'd have constantly new stuff, you could build things up into these big, interested arcs... but we'll never see it happen.
I agree with you on that, but you're comparing Apples and Oranges. The CIA's job isn't to bring about positive change in the world. It's to serve the best interests of whoever happens to be in charge of them at the time. Kill this guy, destabilize this country, get this person to defect, etc.
That just goes to show how smart they are. Nobody reads TFA.
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