Because we all have so many good reasons to believe that those in authority respect our rights and have our best interests in mind. If you trust the authorities, you are part of the problem.
Damn right I don't. I've had five different programming jobs over the last ten years, and every one of them has proved to be thankless and demeaning. I'm not going to do more than I have to, just as management isn't going to pay me more or treat me better than they have to.
If you do the work you're supposed to be doing then so far as I can see you're free to do whatever you like with the rest of the time you spend at work.
I agree with you. As long as I'm making my deadlines and writing acceptable code, I don't see why management should get pissy about me slacking off from time to time. They never bitch about the smokers taking fifteen minute breaks five times a day.
Most of my coworkers spend fifteen minutes out of every hour outside smoking. I don't smoke, so why should I work harder than the smokers when I get paid less than they do?
You know it would have happened eventually. I just made 'eventually' happen a hell of a lot sooner. Now that Godwin's Law has been invoked and dealt with, everybody else can have a nice productive discussion. I'm just doing my part for the cause.
Apparently, this type of marketing suggests that an operating systems is something a non-nerd might buy.
Which is nonsense, right? Why would a non-nerd buy an operating system? He doesn't know how to install it, so what's he going to do, buy it so his cat can sit on it and lick its nuts?
If that is the case, I do invite you to rebel. And I don't mean posting on slashdot. I mean loading your rifle and heading to Washington, DC.
The idea has its attractions, but the examples set by John Wilkes Booth and Lee Harvey Oswald provide ample proof that a lone man with a gun is just a criminal, not a defender of liberty and justice for all.:) So, I'm going to make like Atlas and shrug. I'll see you in Galt's Gulch -- or Tanelorn, if I find that first.
You know, you sound just like a battered wife. You're being robbed, and instead of rebelling you insist on defending the people who rob you. Ever hear of Stockholm Syndrome? You're a poster child for it.
By the way, I'm posting this from Montana. I just harvested a nice big crop of dental floss.
You realize that, for people who went to USian public schools and don't know how to read for context, that FF could mean either Firefox or Final Fantasy, right?
Ah, it did not take too long before fanbois invaded the discussion. It is difficult to determine who are more annoying fanbois. Apple's or Opera's? May be a possible poll suggestion?
I think that the current poll is "Which Fanboys Make You Cringe the Most?"
As for IE8, I guess somebody saw all the bitching people do about how Firefox is a resource hog and decided, "I'll give 'em something to cry about."
This stuff is a real issue, I do not understand how some people think this country does not need universal health care, I guess they think they will live healthy forever.
It's only an issue because we insist on keeping old people alive. They're old; let 'em die.
(Disclosure: I plan on killing myself as soon as I find myself unable to get hard without taking a pill.)
Jesus christ, who can afford either machine to begin with?
I could, but I'm a resident of the People's Christian Republic of Amerika who has no moral objection to hiding cash income from the IRS.:)
However, I find that the black MacBook suits me better than either of the high-spec machines listed in the grand-parent post, and I have a Xbox 360, a PS2, a PSP, and a DS for gaming.
What, you didn't get any bloatware installed on your Mac?
No, I didn't say that. I said that I don't pay to get it removed. I damn well do it myself. It's not like OS X has a Registry, after all. By Shabranigdo's balls, man, my fucking cat can remove the bloatware from a Mac.
If I thought the end justified the means, I'd be over in the Middle East right now killing Muslim men in order to end the oppression of Middle Eastern women. Iblis akhbar!
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Because we all have so much to hide and fear?
Because we all have so many good reasons to believe that those in authority respect our rights and have our best interests in mind. If you trust the authorities, you are part of the problem.
Bullshit. In the modern surveillance society, you'd have to be stupid to not take every precaution you reasonably can.
Damn right I don't. I've had five different programming jobs over the last ten years, and every one of them has proved to be thankless and demeaning. I'm not going to do more than I have to, just as management isn't going to pay me more or treat me better than they have to.
If you do the work you're supposed to be doing then so far as I can see you're free to do whatever you like with the rest of the time you spend at work.
I agree with you. As long as I'm making my deadlines and writing acceptable code, I don't see why management should get pissy about me slacking off from time to time. They never bitch about the smokers taking fifteen minute breaks five times a day.
Most of my coworkers spend fifteen minutes out of every hour outside smoking. I don't smoke, so why should I work harder than the smokers when I get paid less than they do?
That means rent it, don't buy it. Chances are it will suck, just like the first Fable.
You know it would have happened eventually. I just made 'eventually' happen a hell of a lot sooner. Now that Godwin's Law has been invoked and dealt with, everybody else can have a nice productive discussion. I'm just doing my part for the cause.
I do think that they want to lose the stigma that Vista is a bad product.
Not likely. I think there's a better chance of rehabilitating Hitler's image than there is of making Vista look good. (Oh, yeah, I went there.)
Apparently, this type of marketing suggests that an operating systems is something a non-nerd might buy.
Which is nonsense, right? Why would a non-nerd buy an operating system? He doesn't know how to install it, so what's he going to do, buy it so his cat can sit on it and lick its nuts?
If that is the case, I do invite you to rebel. And I don't mean posting on slashdot. I mean loading your rifle and heading to Washington, DC.
The idea has its attractions, but the examples set by John Wilkes Booth and Lee Harvey Oswald provide ample proof that a lone man with a gun is just a criminal, not a defender of liberty and justice for all. :) So, I'm going to make like Atlas and shrug. I'll see you in Galt's Gulch -- or Tanelorn, if I find that first.
I thought it was from The Godfather.
You know, you sound just like a battered wife. You're being robbed, and instead of rebelling you insist on defending the people who rob you. Ever hear of Stockholm Syndrome? You're a poster child for it.
By the way, I'm posting this from Montana. I just harvested a nice big crop of dental floss.
Isn't this really what is comes to? You're just paying money out of your check for someone else to tell you what to do.
I already give money to one protection racket: the government. Why should I give money to another, run eventually by the mafia?
Fuck you if you can't take a joke.
You realize that, for people who went to USian public schools and don't know how to read for context, that FF could mean either Firefox or Final Fantasy, right?
That's what my cat told me.
I bet they used Firefox source.
"y'know, if you compiled that from source like Gentoo does, it would be a lot faster..."
Gentoo's worthless and weak. You should have compiled it on Source Mage. :)
Ah, it did not take too long before fanbois invaded the discussion. It is difficult to determine who are more annoying fanbois. Apple's or Opera's? May be a possible poll suggestion?
I think that the current poll is "Which Fanboys Make You Cringe the Most?"
As for IE8, I guess somebody saw all the bitching people do about how Firefox is a resource hog and decided, "I'll give 'em something to cry about."
i think that i would be bored out of my skull watching daytime tv, and would rather get a job
Couldn't you just make a low-budget HDV Filipino horror movie in Florida instead of New York City?
This stuff is a real issue, I do not understand how some people think this country does not need universal health care, I guess they think they will live healthy forever.
It's only an issue because we insist on keeping old people alive. They're old; let 'em die.
(Disclosure: I plan on killing myself as soon as I find myself unable to get hard without taking a pill.)
Does the Marathon Trilogy using the OS X port of Aleph One count? :)
Jesus christ, who can afford either machine to begin with?
I could, but I'm a resident of the People's Christian Republic of Amerika who has no moral objection to hiding cash income from the IRS. :)
However, I find that the black MacBook suits me better than either of the high-spec machines listed in the grand-parent post, and I have a Xbox 360, a PS2, a PSP, and a DS for gaming.
What, you didn't get any bloatware installed on your Mac?
No, I didn't say that. I said that I don't pay to get it removed. I damn well do it myself. It's not like OS X has a Registry, after all. By Shabranigdo's balls, man, my fucking cat can remove the bloatware from a Mac.
If I thought the end justified the means, I'd be over in the Middle East right now killing Muslim men in order to end the oppression of Middle Eastern women. Iblis akhbar!