What I don't get is why people moan so much about unity, when if they dont like it, there are 18 gazillion other linuxes out there to use. Or even just switch to classic mode! Unity is different on purpose, shitting all over it for its minor faults is akin to kicking a baby in the shins because they haven't properly preserved the grammar of their mother language.
Of course it isn't perfect, but the whole point is: at least its something different! Stagnant pools breed vermin...
Sod the horse, there is already an invention that turns KFC directly into transport fuel. It's called a bike, and had a brief moment of popularity before the lazy fuckmobile was invented and killed all the transport infrastructure world-wide.
Left handed driving - purely arbitrary. If you want any chance of changing it, first you have to make ambidextrous cars the standard. I suggest using a tiller instead of a wheel.
But the chorded keyboard is not self explanatory. It is reasons like that that cause things to flop, it is why nobody ever likes predictive text unless you do like it, in which case you like it very much! I remember someone talking about a 'revolutionary' typing corrector for a smartphone keyboard, when it was just doing the same thing as predictive text and guessing what letter you wanted from where your fingers were mashing the screen.
You complete prat. The sentence is written to imply that piracy is the only option available to watch the show. Meaning, 'not watching it' is not an optional answer to the sentence.
If you are ignoring a particular method of distributing your show to people, just because it has some superficial stigma attached to it, yours is the issue. People want the fucking thing beamed to their computers, that doesn't mean that they area against the idea of paying towards it. Look at itunes, steam, whatever!
Yes, the trouble is that if the extent of your work issues is uncomfortable heels and the odd letch, then you already have it better than 90% of the people on the planet.
I have a theory - human understanding of the universe is a constant effort. The older any particular theory is, the more likely it is to be superseded by more detailed and accurate theories based on painstaking observation and research. The object of the game is to accept that every theory however useful it might be in its day is merely a placeholder. The stronger the theory is, the easier it will be to find supporting evidence behind it, and when a competing theory has exhausted its supply of evidence, it is time for it to retire gracefully, with humility and without shame, for anyone presented with the available evidence at the time cannot be blamed for coming to the same conclusions.
It should NOT try to cling to its position kicking and screaming, by bullying people into ignoring any other point of view, sweeping opposing theories under the carpet as 'unproven' while reserving the right to be known as 'fact'. You cant bury the truth unless you hide all the spades.
Humans always ask questions, it is how children become knowledgeable adults. It is impossible not to wonder what it all means as much as it is impossible for a thinking man to try and give his best answer to a tough question. If you want my theory, the Bible and its ilk is the best guess about the workings of the universe in a society that generally attributed anything that couldn't be explained to 'all powerful invisible people in the sky that meddle in the affairs of mortal men', which was more or less the best available theory at the time. Fast forward 6000 years and 50% of the world seems to have accepted the sky man theory as fact, based on something called "FAITH", which seems to be a virtue that bypasses the need for the 'PROOF' that they require from anyone else that might dare to challenge them.
Well all I have to say is, I don't feel the need to prove evolution to anyone - I have faith in it:)
I will let you in on a clue. I am 'poor' but I have no problem saving money, managing my spending or making long term plans towards a goal. I live in a comfortable flat and don't want for food, water and comforts. I have travelled enough to see how everyone lives and can't really complain.
I just have an ingrained contempt for rich people, being treated like royalty for no discernible reason. Actors, politicians, athletes, tack your pick. I don't feel that level of self entitlement so how can I respect anyone that does? Therefore, according to those of high social status I lack the 'general ability to make my will and drive manifest'
I don't have ambitions to become rich. I have hopes that rich people will rid themselves of the delusion that poor people look up to and respect them.
Is everyone in the justice system thick? Never mind whether the joke is funny or not, if you are actually going to bomb a public place, you don't announce your plan publicly on twitter using your personal fucking account because that would put you in the iq range of someone who has to ride the special bus and thus somewhat stunt your ability to organise acts of domestic terrorism.
You are all kinds of fucked in the head. There is more to the issue than 'who gets to make babies! me me me!'
It isn't about genetics and mating rights and strong vs weak. If you can actually see what we are as a creatures, and still think that we should measure our worth by how good we are at making babies then you are a fool. Anyone can make a baby, its one of the things everyone seems to know how to do, like eat, piss and shit.
Most people are actually aware of what is going on behind the scenes of human life: overpopulation, mass starvation, diminishing resources, genocide, industrial scale destruction of natural ecosystems, more extinctions than you can shake a dead dodo at. Last century the bloodiest conflicts in human history did not even make us pause our endless quest for expansion onto every square inch of the globe, and nobody seems to have a good fucking answer for what any of it is actually supposed to be for! A complete fantasy, an endless forest of middle class special and unique people, is that what people should want? Do you really want to see how well the human race gets along with one another when there is nowhere left for us to spread and nothing left to eat but each others precious little babies?
No, most people are actually smart, which is why most people could care less about the so called survival of the fucking species, which by now is so disconnected from reality that studies like this one would only be useful as toilet paper if I hadn't read it on my computer screen. It isn't the people looking at tits and playing xbox that are causing the decline of the human race, its the people telling us to "Make more babies, quick! We might suddenly vanish if there are only a few billion of us!"
The traditional idea of what is right and good for a person is completely out of the window, because human life is far to self centred and nauseating for anyone to actually be able to feel proud of it. Escaping the traditional nuclear family model is part of the solution, not the problem. Now excuse me while I try to enjoy the remainder of my pointless, worthless existence without some fuck wit telling me I am doing it wrong.
Who are you? What planet are you from? My computer would be on the receiving end of a hammer after 10 minutes of 'intermittent advertisement' this way. Rather watch and read nothing at all than be incessantly heckled.
We all knew this was coming. It is not a hard argument to make that skipping commercials is basically equivalent to pirating content.
Absolute bullshit. You might as well try to argue that if you walk past a busker without throwing some change, you are stealing his livelihood. If you want to put your program over the airwaves, that is your problem. You find the money for it. I might throw you a dollar or two, or I might not, it's not my problem that you want to make a living that way. The people who work real jobs and actually watch your programs don't make a fucking tenth of what an average actor does.
I know somebody that acts like that in real life. I have to be honest I don't much like them.
Can't blame tv folks though, after all they do go to 'drama' school, so drama is what you will get. The first thing actors and writers are going to forget is how actual real people behave, because they are watching and mimicking them instead of actually being one. There is always some sense mixed in every show, maybe a bit of humour, a bit of imagination, but the melodrama poison is just a hazard of the job.
Not to take the edge of your rant, but I reckon you might find it more productive to not let it bother you. Unless you would rather watch normal space men go about their normal space lives with a complete absence of mortal peril:)
I don't see every post on American politics turn into a big discussion among Europeans about whether or not they approve.
Eh? That's pretty much all us Europeans browse the American Internets for - to disapprove! It's in the starter information pack we get with our birth certificates. I thought we were doing an okay job, but surely your complete unawareness means we will have to redouble our collective efforts.
PS Stop being fat America. And stop being too pretty as well. And also, don't you dare be normal either, then we would all get bored over here and have to turn back to the cricket.
This is why it is stupid to have an end of season cliffhanger. If your series is unlucky enough to be killed, then there can never, ever be any closure. It really is a terrible, terrible habit, worse than picking your nose while addressing a crowd.
The Internet is not a printing press, nor a vinyl/tape/rom/cd/dvd/blu-ray factory. If I want to I can publish to millions and all I need is something decent to publish and old fashioned word of mouth. So can anyone else. So providing everyone has a computer (and everyone probably could have, if all the computers that had been thrown out over the years were all properly re-homed), and given that reportedly even Masai tribesmen have mobile phones hitched to their loincloths, the only gatekeeper to this new publishing ecosystem is your ISP. The other guys are like the wizard of oz, they will only remain powerful as long as the general population, artists and fans alike, perceive them to be.
The only reason the other industries thrived is because they provided something that people needed - and they are no longer needed. Things that are no longer needed wither and die. As I said, all they are good for now is scraping the bottom of the barrel with 'talent' shows and serving up godawful patronising shite (I never needed any fucking Justin Bieber when I was 10). The last death throes of an organisation that was only ever tolerated because there wasn't a better way at the time. Don't build your house on sand, bigger they are, yadda yadda etc. Bye.
Thankyou, for stating the obvious:). I know that statement seems sarcastic, but it is the one thing people seem to so easily overlook. Not only is the music distribution industry redundant, the only thing it seems to be good for in my mind is promoting gutter trash like Justin Bieber, which most likely would never fly on its own.
Piracy may not be 100% right, but neither is expecting to get mega rich off the back of the general scumbag population just because you can do something that resembles actual music.
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What I don't get is why people moan so much about unity, when if they dont like it, there are 18 gazillion other linuxes out there to use. Or even just switch to classic mode! Unity is different on purpose, shitting all over it for its minor faults is akin to kicking a baby in the shins because they haven't properly preserved the grammar of their mother language.
Of course it isn't perfect, but the whole point is: at least its something different! Stagnant pools breed vermin...
Sod the horse, there is already an invention that turns KFC directly into transport fuel. It's called a bike, and had a brief moment of popularity before the lazy fuckmobile was invented and killed all the transport infrastructure world-wide.
Left handed driving - purely arbitrary. If you want any chance of changing it, first you have to make ambidextrous cars the standard. I suggest using a tiller instead of a wheel.
But the chorded keyboard is not self explanatory. It is reasons like that that cause things to flop, it is why nobody ever likes predictive text unless you do like it, in which case you like it very much! I remember someone talking about a 'revolutionary' typing corrector for a smartphone keyboard, when it was just doing the same thing as predictive text and guessing what letter you wanted from where your fingers were mashing the screen.
People's biggest hurdle learning to type is that qwerty jumbles up the established order of the alphabet. Here is a more pragmatic solution: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDjeoMz1YFw&feature=related
Try 'up periscope'!
You complete prat. The sentence is written to imply that piracy is the only option available to watch the show. Meaning, 'not watching it' is not an optional answer to the sentence.
If you are ignoring a particular method of distributing your show to people, just because it has some superficial stigma attached to it, yours is the issue. People want the fucking thing beamed to their computers, that doesn't mean that they area against the idea of paying towards it. Look at itunes, steam, whatever!
Yes, the trouble is that if the extent of your work issues is uncomfortable heels and the odd letch, then you already have it better than 90% of the people on the planet.
I have a theory - human understanding of the universe is a constant effort. The older any particular theory is, the more likely it is to be superseded by more detailed and accurate theories based on painstaking observation and research. The object of the game is to accept that every theory however useful it might be in its day is merely a placeholder. The stronger the theory is, the easier it will be to find supporting evidence behind it, and when a competing theory has exhausted its supply of evidence, it is time for it to retire gracefully, with humility and without shame, for anyone presented with the available evidence at the time cannot be blamed for coming to the same conclusions.
It should NOT try to cling to its position kicking and screaming, by bullying people into ignoring any other point of view, sweeping opposing theories under the carpet as 'unproven' while reserving the right to be known as 'fact'. You cant bury the truth unless you hide all the spades.
Humans always ask questions, it is how children become knowledgeable adults. It is impossible not to wonder what it all means as much as it is impossible for a thinking man to try and give his best answer to a tough question. If you want my theory, the Bible and its ilk is the best guess about the workings of the universe in a society that generally attributed anything that couldn't be explained to 'all powerful invisible people in the sky that meddle in the affairs of mortal men', which was more or less the best available theory at the time. Fast forward 6000 years and 50% of the world seems to have accepted the sky man theory as fact, based on something called "FAITH", which seems to be a virtue that bypasses the need for the 'PROOF' that they require from anyone else that might dare to challenge them.
Well all I have to say is, I don't feel the need to prove evolution to anyone - I have faith in it :)
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I will let you in on a clue. I am 'poor' but I have no problem saving money, managing my spending or making long term plans towards a goal. I live in a comfortable flat and don't want for food, water and comforts. I have travelled enough to see how everyone lives and can't really complain.
I just have an ingrained contempt for rich people, being treated like royalty for no discernible reason. Actors, politicians, athletes, tack your pick. I don't feel that level of self entitlement so how can I respect anyone that does? Therefore, according to those of high social status I lack the 'general ability to make my will and drive manifest'
I don't have ambitions to become rich. I have hopes that rich people will rid themselves of the delusion that poor people look up to and respect them.
Is everyone in the justice system thick? Never mind whether the joke is funny or not, if you are actually going to bomb a public place, you don't announce your plan publicly on twitter using your personal fucking account because that would put you in the iq range of someone who has to ride the special bus and thus somewhat stunt your ability to organise acts of domestic terrorism.
Careful, your shoe addiction might be causing the decline of our generation!
You are all kinds of fucked in the head. There is more to the issue than 'who gets to make babies! me me me!'
It isn't about genetics and mating rights and strong vs weak. If you can actually see what we are as a creatures, and still think that we should measure our worth by how good we are at making babies then you are a fool. Anyone can make a baby, its one of the things everyone seems to know how to do, like eat, piss and shit.
Most people are actually aware of what is going on behind the scenes of human life: overpopulation, mass starvation, diminishing resources, genocide, industrial scale destruction of natural ecosystems, more extinctions than you can shake a dead dodo at. Last century the bloodiest conflicts in human history did not even make us pause our endless quest for expansion onto every square inch of the globe, and nobody seems to have a good fucking answer for what any of it is actually supposed to be for! A complete fantasy, an endless forest of middle class special and unique people, is that what people should want? Do you really want to see how well the human race gets along with one another when there is nowhere left for us to spread and nothing left to eat but each others precious little babies?
No, most people are actually smart, which is why most people could care less about the so called survival of the fucking species, which by now is so disconnected from reality that studies like this one would only be useful as toilet paper if I hadn't read it on my computer screen. It isn't the people looking at tits and playing xbox that are causing the decline of the human race, its the people telling us to "Make more babies, quick! We might suddenly vanish if there are only a few billion of us!"
The traditional idea of what is right and good for a person is completely out of the window, because human life is far to self centred and nauseating for anyone to actually be able to feel proud of it. Escaping the traditional nuclear family model is part of the solution, not the problem. Now excuse me while I try to enjoy the remainder of my pointless, worthless existence without some fuck wit telling me I am doing it wrong.
Who are you? What planet are you from? My computer would be on the receiving end of a hammer after 10 minutes of 'intermittent advertisement' this way. Rather watch and read nothing at all than be incessantly heckled.
We all knew this was coming. It is not a hard argument to make that skipping commercials is basically equivalent to pirating content.
Absolute bullshit. You might as well try to argue that if you walk past a busker without throwing some change, you are stealing his livelihood. If you want to put your program over the airwaves, that is your problem. You find the money for it. I might throw you a dollar or two, or I might not, it's not my problem that you want to make a living that way. The people who work real jobs and actually watch your programs don't make a fucking tenth of what an average actor does.
I hate you.
Give me your life :P
I know somebody that acts like that in real life. I have to be honest I don't much like them.
Can't blame tv folks though, after all they do go to 'drama' school, so drama is what you will get. The first thing actors and writers are going to forget is how actual real people behave, because they are watching and mimicking them instead of actually being one. There is always some sense mixed in every show, maybe a bit of humour, a bit of imagination, but the melodrama poison is just a hazard of the job.
Not to take the edge of your rant, but I reckon you might find it more productive to not let it bother you. Unless you would rather watch normal space men go about their normal space lives with a complete absence of mortal peril :)
I don't see every post on American politics turn into a big discussion among Europeans about whether or not they approve.
Eh? That's pretty much all us Europeans browse the American Internets for - to disapprove! It's in the starter information pack we get with our birth certificates. I thought we were doing an okay job, but surely your complete unawareness means we will have to redouble our collective efforts.
PS Stop being fat America. And stop being too pretty as well. And also, don't you dare be normal either, then we would all get bored over here and have to turn back to the cricket.
This is why it is stupid to have an end of season cliffhanger. If your series is unlucky enough to be killed, then there can never, ever be any closure. It really is a terrible, terrible habit, worse than picking your nose while addressing a crowd.
Blah, neither is relevant.
The Internet is not a printing press, nor a vinyl/tape/rom/cd/dvd/blu-ray factory. If I want to I can publish to millions and all I need is something decent to publish and old fashioned word of mouth. So can anyone else. So providing everyone has a computer (and everyone probably could have, if all the computers that had been thrown out over the years were all properly re-homed), and given that reportedly even Masai tribesmen have mobile phones hitched to their loincloths, the only gatekeeper to this new publishing ecosystem is your ISP. The other guys are like the wizard of oz, they will only remain powerful as long as the general population, artists and fans alike, perceive them to be.
The only reason the other industries thrived is because they provided something that people needed - and they are no longer needed. Things that are no longer needed wither and die. As I said, all they are good for now is scraping the bottom of the barrel with 'talent' shows and serving up godawful patronising shite (I never needed any fucking Justin Bieber when I was 10). The last death throes of an organisation that was only ever tolerated because there wasn't a better way at the time. Don't build your house on sand, bigger they are, yadda yadda etc. Bye.
Thankyou, for stating the obvious :). I know that statement seems sarcastic, but it is the one thing people seem to so easily overlook. Not only is the music distribution industry redundant, the only thing it seems to be good for in my mind is promoting gutter trash like Justin Bieber, which most likely would never fly on its own.
Piracy may not be 100% right, but neither is expecting to get mega rich off the back of the general scumbag population just because you can do something that resembles actual music.
The pirate bay keeps on.... 'arbouring! 'Arrrr!
I was trying to mend my trousers, but I have a terrible problem with my Singer. Make it Sew, Number One!
Why do racist pricks need so much attention on slashdot? Because they know anywhere else they will get kicked in the face.
Phwooooarrr, thats one hot burka there, you can almost see her dimples ! /wanks furiously