or worse scripts. Honestly, calling US TV "art" is stretching the definition of the term beyond breaking point, and then some. A better term would be "cultural propaganda"
and as Ben Franklin and Winston Churchill have noted, democracy is the worst form of government. The USA is a constitutional republic, not a democracy. Learn the difference.
and you trust reviewers? when was the last time a friend recommended a movie to you and it sucked? I run out of fingers for that one.
I watched "Unforgiven" last night..fuckin awesome film
Granted, computers are far more pervasive now than they were then. But so are IT professionals. not to mention amateurs (meaning me). I had a devil of a time switching to linux but have been using ubuntu on my home-made beast virtually without problems for the last 6 months. For me the transition from xp to ubuntu was very smooth, but I like a challenge and am not afraid of the command line;o)
not to mention the shear egotistical arrogance of thinking that human are having ANY significant effect of the environment.
As I told the wife last night, most of the factors that control the climate etc are beyond our control so all this feel-good-earth-wank is about as useful as worrying about all the near-earth asteroids that could wipe us out.
I'm more concerned about the raw sewerage that is being pumped out at my formerly pristine local beach...but I guess it ain't "cool" or "PC" or whatever the trendy term is these days...
What Congresscritter killed 3,000 Americans, drove a major industry (the airlines) to the breaking point and inflicted billions of dollars of measurable damage (loss of the twin towers) and who knows how much unmeasurable damage? (post 9/11 economic fallout)
As a New Yorker let me be the first to tell you to go fuck yourself for that stupid bombastic comparison. Let me further purpose that we need a Godwin's Law for offtopic terrorism/Al Quada references.
Your emotional rant pretty much gives away your location. As for which congresscritter has fucked the average citizen of the USA over, try, ooh I don't know, maybe ALL OF THEM!
ANd don't forget that if you buy current solar cells, by the time you make your money back in power savings solar panels will be 1000% more efficient hence the time delay in recovering $$$. I'm waiting until they get around 40% before I buy anything...
Yeah but which improvement is harder to overcome? And I'm not sure your average Linux box is like Fort Knox either...if 90% of the world used unix-based o/ses there'd likely be a spitload of malware for them too.
if humanity isn't wiped out for any other reason we've got something close to 4 billion years to keep spinning on this planet. Not true. The process of the sun's degeneration towards death will make the Earth uninhabitable in about 1000 million years...still a long time tho;o)
Really? Wow, how did you find out? Please inform Hawking et al so they may add more known factors into their equations. I'm glad someone has finally found out the true nature of our multi-dimensional reality. Are there parallel universes as well or are there just multiple Hubble volumes? Please hurry, inquiring minds want to know!
If you want to do what you love for all of your life, you shouldn't have kids. The moment you have kids, what you love no longer matters anymore., What garbage. As someone who has kids I can tell you that if I threw the rest of my life away to focus solely on them I would be a terrible role model.
The moment you have kids, all your hopes, your dreams, you can throw all of it in the trash. Once you have those kids your purpose in life is those kids and nothing else matters besides those kids. I think breathing, water and food still matter more than those kids, because if you cannot provide for yourself, how can you hope to provide for the children? This may appear selfish but is one case where that selfishness is counter-intuitively a good thing. If you pour all your effort into your kids, you will stop growing as a person. I'm not saying you don't need to take the kids into account and put them high on the priority list, but you do not and should not sweep aside every other aspect of your life. By doing so you will be doing yourself AND your kids a HUGE disservice. They need to learn how real people are instead of some unrealistic ideal, and becoming a simpering sycophant is setting them up for a lifetime of psychological illness. Just read up on Anna Freud and her charges for more on this point...
Just because you feel like doing something else it doesn't change the fact that your purpose in life is to protect your family (your kids). It does not change the fact that you are the only person in the world who can protect them, and they need you. Protect them from what? The terrorists? My family includes the Mrs, not JUST the kids and I am not the only person that can protect them. In my country at least we have the police and military who also perform a similar role.
So what you love doesn't have anything to do with how able you are to provide to your children. You might not love IT anymore, but if it pays well, nothing else matters because the whole point to your existence is to protect and raise children. *cue metallica* And nothing else matters * except air water and food, a roof over their heads etc etc. If your kids don't see you pursuing what you love at least *some* of the time, they will see their father as a joyless soul with a VERY skewed take on reality. Once again it is a matter of priorities. Very few areas in life are this black or white.
If you aren't having kids, then the situation is different. If you don't want kids then you are free to do whatever makes you happy for the whole of your entire life. As long as it pays decent, you'll probably find and keep a woman somewhere in between. Spoken like a truly childless person and if you keep up your extremist attitude you may remain childless for life, but that will probably be a good thing as the last thing we need is the mentally incompetent passing down idiotic perfectionist ideologies that would make Hitler (sorry Godwin) blush. What if having kids and having a family is what you love? Doing what you enjoy and having kids are not mutually exclusive.
however saying you are "good at math" means that your might be less prone to giving up on an equasion, I think if you are doing maths, you'd be better off doing equations than equasions.
Oh yes I am paid by MS (sarcasm)... Care to show proof? Proof? On/.? Surely you jest..
On the internet, never let proof get in the way of a good slur...
Everyone on/. knows that M$ got to where they are today by sheer luck and the stupidity of the market, nothing at all to do with getting their solutions out there before they're ready...and i use the term "solutions" in the broadest possible sense...
Why - Because American citizens allow it. after all that has gone down I seriously doubt and defy you to prove that the citizens of the USA have any real influence in the political machinery of their country
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA what tripe...such naivety in this day and age really shows how stupid some people still are...congrats on being the first poster on/. with a single digit I.Q.
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no point being sad coz other people are dumb... PS i fit into the above group because my brain is full of physics...no room left for CLI commands ;o)
or worse scripts. Honestly, calling US TV "art" is stretching the definition of the term beyond breaking point, and then some. A better term would be "cultural propaganda"
and as Ben Franklin and Winston Churchill have noted, democracy is the worst form of government. The USA is a constitutional republic, not a democracy. Learn the difference.
and you trust reviewers? when was the last time a friend recommended a movie to you and it sucked? I run out of fingers for that one. I watched "Unforgiven" last night..fuckin awesome film
you mean that sincere patriot and paragon of integrity GWB? GHB is a date-rape drug i believe...
not to mention the shear egotistical arrogance of thinking that human are having ANY significant effect of the environment. As I told the wife last night, most of the factors that control the climate etc are beyond our control so all this feel-good-earth-wank is about as useful as worrying about all the near-earth asteroids that could wipe us out. I'm more concerned about the raw sewerage that is being pumped out at my formerly pristine local beach...but I guess it ain't "cool" or "PC" or whatever the trendy term is these days...
What Congresscritter killed 3,000 Americans, drove a major industry (the airlines) to the breaking point and inflicted billions of dollars of measurable damage (loss of the twin towers) and who knows how much unmeasurable damage? (post 9/11 economic fallout)
As a New Yorker let me be the first to tell you to go fuck yourself for that stupid bombastic comparison. Let me further purpose that we need a Godwin's Law for offtopic terrorism/Al Quada references.
Your emotional rant pretty much gives away your location. As for which congresscritter has fucked the average citizen of the USA over, try, ooh I don't know, maybe ALL OF THEM!erm fusion has been around as long as there have been stars and is very well understood, it's just not that easy to do in a controlled way.
ANd don't forget that if you buy current solar cells, by the time you make your money back in power savings solar panels will be 1000% more efficient hence the time delay in recovering $$$. I'm waiting until they get around 40% before I buy anything...
Yeah but which improvement is harder to overcome? And I'm not sure your average Linux box is like Fort Knox either...if 90% of the world used unix-based o/ses there'd likely be a spitload of malware for them too.
Really? Wow, how did you find out? Please inform Hawking et al so they may add more known factors into their equations. I'm glad someone has finally found out the true nature of our multi-dimensional reality. Are there parallel universes as well or are there just multiple Hubble volumes? Please hurry, inquiring minds want to know!
if you find windows hard to get working then you don't belong on /.
hmm....I've heard this story before...that's right! from the sys admins in my university's comp-sci dept ;o)
You sir, are the fucking man. If I had mod points I would give them all to you. Perhaps the most thoughtful post of the year.
Hail to the Thief!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA what tripe...such naivety in this day and age really shows how stupid some people still are...congrats on being the first poster on /. with a single digit I.Q.
...or people who ask /. for anything after 6 months reading posts etc, I've come across perhaps 2 pieces of good advice.
probably better than getting it from dateless homosexuals such as yourself.