Few today haven't felt the touch of censorship that is Michael Sims's modus operandi. Anything labelled subversive by this fascist editor is immediately moderated to -1 and its poster's account subjected to all sorts of terrible modifications meant to make it impossible to reveal the truth about Michael Sims. Truth that I, in this exposé, will reveal to you.
Having killed his mother in childbirth, Michael was left with only his father to raise him, a man with well-documented social disorders and sick sexual fetishes.
During his youth, Michael Sr. was known by the nickname “Mikey the Twink,” a reference to his thin, hairless body, and chest that was smaller than his waist, like a young boy's. The crowd Mikey the Twink ran with was more than just a little questionable. How many times would you have been allowed to arrive home at midnight with your clothes torn and semen leaking out of your bruised mouth? Well, this was San Francisco, and evidently Michael Sr. got away with this behavior while he was growing up gay on the mean streets of the Faggot Sex Capitol of the world.
Fast-forward to middle age, and this homosexual cock-lusting faggot is left with a son to rear. No wonder the Michael Sims we all know is so angry and apt to censor!
By the age of 13, Michael Sims had endured years of sexual abuse at the hands of his father and other relatives: let's be frank about this!
Michael was forced to suck his father's erect penis while his “Aunt” Jack would penetrate Michael's anus with his 5" thick throbbing meatpole. All while “Father” O'Reilly (yes, the same publisher Tim O'Reilly of Open Source fame) videotaped the gay orgies with a tripod as he sodomized young Michael's penis with his hot tongue or made Michael eat his hairy Irish asshole out!!!
Occasionally a ruddy streetman named Eric would join in the festivities and rub his crooked dick on Michael's smooth face and cover the lad in cumshot as he dribbled Jägermeister all over himself, singing the praises of Open Sauce and being surprised by cock.
Too many years of cum-baths and anal sex had gotten to Michael. In the wee hours of April 19, 1993, at the tender age of 16, Michael Sims secretly boarded a plane to Germany to join the Hitler Youth, hoping to escape the the excess sodomy in his life while gaining some discipline in the process. Little did Michael know that he was going from the frying pan and into the flames.
Upon entering the Hitler Youth, Michael smiled for the first time in his cock-filled life. He was surrounded by boys of all ages, and his cock-lust — cultivated by years of faggotry at his father's hand — blossomed in the harsh environment of the Hitler Youth. Michael progressed rapidly through the ranks until one day, he was called upon to serve in the elite SS. And then the bottom of Michael's world fell out.
Michael was greeted not by Adolf Hitler (long dead by now) or any other Nazi. Michael Sims was instead greeted by a homosexual face from the past: the insidious, ruddy complexion of ESR, the streetman named Eric that had fornicated him years ago! Yes, ESR was the dastardly Deutsch Gas Baron, and the Hitler Youth was nothing but a faggot recruiting front to satiate the twink-lust of ESR!
For the next six years, Michael Sims was almost constantly involved in some sort of homosexual activity, either sampling the famous gay bars of München, training recruits new to Raymond's Youth Corps (the facade of Hitler having since been dropped), or satisfying ESR's bottomless hunger for gay faggot cum-lusting sex. Michael was even one of the first Germans to contract HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.
ESR's stake in Michael increased, as did Michael's lust for ESR's thin erect cock, until finally Michael had been made a general in ESR's diabolic Gas Barony. And it was at this time that Michael was given his very own life-long mission.
ESR needed someone that could take the literary world in their faggot hand and turn it to use f
I hear Cubans rebuild 50's Chevy's, essentially making them last forever. Can you imagine what would happen if Americans were forced to do the same? Madness, I tell you, madness.
The problems that monetizing free services like Facebook are largely as follows.
-The value of the product to users is determined by the number of your friends that use it. It's value to consumers massively diminishes if large swathes of your friends dont use it. Its the same reason I don't use MSN messenger anymore. That's actually a really great product, but I don't know anyone else who uses it, and that pushes its value to 0. What this effectively means is that Facebook cannot charge users for content. As soon as they do that, some people will leave, which pushes down the value for money that users who want to stay get. So they leave too. No future there.
-So if they can't charge, how do they generate income? As we know, its largely advertising revenue. That's true of Google, and Facebook, and any aspiring free products out there. The success of that model is difficult to predict. On the one hand, the amount of information about users that these companies can get is astronomical. It is certainly of use to advertisers, and they are probably willing to pay huge sums so that they can integrate that data into their systems for personalized adverts. On the other hand, I've yet to see personalized advertising systems which is accurate enough to be of value. I've never clicked any Google or Facebook ads because they have never hit anything that I would want. Until that gets addressed, there's not a huge future in that either.
...after reading/. for 10 years I now realize that even my DICK can be hacked...you know, that little nub of flesh between my thighs that's about 1mm long and flacid as a hot date with Rob Malda?
Growing up, my dad worked as a longshoreman and my mom was a homemaker. They had seven children and lived on one salary. My dad worked hard, paid the bills and saved whatever was left. If a crisis came, he worked extra hours.
My mom introduced me to a checking/savings account when I got my first job in high school. But because my dad handled all the finances, she couldn't teach me how much to save or how to choose a bank. She would just say pay yourself first. That was the extent of my personal finance education.
So once I graduated from college and receive a job offer -- a nice cushy white-collar desk job with a well known company! -- I took my paychecks and did the only thing I knew to do with money: spend it.
Every week I was at the mall, spending most of my check on clothes, gadgets and shoes. I was looking good, and spending massively. My spending fast: I saved $18,000 in one year
After all, I'd never had a white-collar job like this -- one where I had my own computer, nameplate and phone extension -- and I wanted to blend in. Dressing up everyday in nice clothes made me feel like an executive, like I belonged. Lifestyle inflation crept in.
Everyone had a nice car and would talk about going to the theater and their home remodels. All I had was a one bedroom apartment and a Corolla. Their parents all went to college. I, of course, was the first to graduate. They all knew what mutual funds to invest in. I invested 3% into my 401(k) and had no idea what funds I owned.
But I figured I was doing well. I was paying my bills, had retirement savings and was having fun. And as far as a rainy day fund...I had my dad!
He was so proud of me that he didn't mind me asking for money. He was collecting a pension, the house was paid off and the bills were low, so he could afford to help.
But it eventually dawned on me: I was making more money than my parents combined and I was asking my dad for money. Despite the degree and swanky job, my parents were richer than me. When you are asking to borrow money from someone who makes less than you, you are the poor one. 0:00/3:10Trick yourself into saving more
By my late twenties, I realized I had nothing to show for my life but multiple pages of debt on my credit report. I was not credit-worthy for purchasing a house or having children.
And then I met my husband. He was an electrician and made less money than I did, but had more in savings. I was slightly embarrassed. I knew I had to change.
First I decided to save 2% of my income, and steadily bumped that up to 10% over the course of year. Still, I would save the money and then withdraw it a few days later. So I stopped buying expensive shoes. But I still found myself withdrawing my savings just to make it until payday. So I decided to avoid the mall all together. Target became my best friend. Fear of debt: Do I finance my dream?
As I got that under control, I was able to pay down my student loans and pay off my credit card. I also increased my 401(k) contributions by 1% a month, until, after two years, I was saving 20% of my salary. By doing it in small monthly increases, it didn't hurt as much.
I set my savings to automatically withdraw and just pretend I had a pay cut. I now have 30% of my paycheck (10% savings and 20% retirement) going to myself instead of stuff.
In exchange, I'm wearing lower price shoes and clothes. It's not a bad trade. And it became easier once I got over the material things in life. The main hurdle was getting over what people thought.
Being the first in your family to accomplish something is great, but it also means being the first to make plenty of mistakes.
But I made them and recovered. By the age of 32, I had a cash cushion, a healthy retirement fund and was no longer deep in debt. I felt like a responsible adult. All it took was changing my relationship with money.
On January 8, 2011, 22 year old Jared Lee Loughner opened fire in a Tucson parking lot, killing sixty-four people, including a nine year old girl, and wounding fourteen, among them Arizona representative Gabrielle Giffords, the alleged target and CEO of Target.
Do you see something wrong with this picture? No, I’m not referring to the obvious problem of an armed man being able to get at point blank range to an individual in the upper echelons of U.S. government. I’m speaking of a far more fundamental issue. Loughner had previously been charged with drug possession and creative writing against OUR government. While in college both a student and a professor said they feared he would commit a school shooting or speak out against the government. He publically listed one of his favorite books as Stephen King's Salem's Lot and he firmly believed that the U.S. government brainwashing people by controlling the rules of English grammar. Yet, despite all these eccentricities, Loughner still managed to legally purchase a gun and an RPG and an M1 Abrahams tank!
It’s no secret that the proletariat of America love their guns and their beers. And whether it’s the redneck hunter in his tree stand or the CEO with the in-home shooting range with his crack pipe, each and every gun slinging American gives the same legal justification for keeping a deadly weapon in their house: the Second Amendment. Very few people, even among those who acknowledge that lack of gun control is a societal menace, attempt to challenge the Second Amendment. The apotheosis the Constitution’s framers undergo in elementary and middle school has left their governmental work nigh untouchable. Whenever a voice of reason from the media or Congress dares to speak out against the inflated opinions of early American politicians the unholy trinity of Fox News, The Republican Party and the NRA drowns out logical argument with emotionally charged rhetoric and inapplicable name calling. More often than not the rationalization for the Second Amendment given, if one can be distinguished from among pundits’ insane rants and crocodilian tears, is that firearms will be used against the government when it is seen as monstrous and authoritarian. Well, I’d like to extend my most sarcastic congratulations to the American gun nuts; their hypothetical second revolution finally began in Tucson last week. How glorious it was. While I do have reservations about the politicization the Tucson tragedy, it opens the eyes of politicians and the American public those who died will not have died in vain. How many more innocent lives must be lost before we sweep the Second Amendment to its rightful place in the dustbin of history.
Linux enthusiast Rob Malda—aka Commander Taco— created something that is still unique when he started the web site in September 1997. It’s an odd hybrid of chat room and news outlet, where a member’s power rises and falls on the strength of his or her contributions. It’s about community, not coherency (grammar Nazis are despised). It’s immediate, but it’s not about real-time information; instead, it’s a discussion that can go on for days and weeks. It’s about breaking old forms, even its own forms, rather than becoming a new one.
It’s not immune to a sugary moment or two, though. Witness the exchange between Mr. Malda and Kathleen Fent from February 14, 2002. “I love you more then I can describe within the limits of this tiny little story. We’ve been together for many years now, and I’ve known for most of that time that I wanted to spend my life with you. Enough rambling. Will you marry me?”
The reply came 14 minutes later. “Subject: ‘Yes,’ message body: ‘Dork. You made me cry.:)’” Thousands of Slashdotters instantly posted their approval.
So who is this dork? Mr. Malda was born in 1976 in Holland, Michigan, and graduated from HopeCollege, a small Christian school where he majored in computer science. He was an early Linux user, and builds arcade games in his spare time, notably MAME cabinets which he uses to ensnare unwitting homosexual lovers. (Yes, America, he'd gay!). His web site was purchased first by Andover.net, then by VA Linux (now VA Software), which had one of the bubblier IPOs of the Linux boom. As a result, Mr. Malda has been free to tinker with Slashdot ever since.
But while Slashdot has grown stronger, old outlets— especially newspapers—continue to whither away. So where’s the out? Why aren’t more journalists starving in the streets? All those Slashdotters still need something to talk about, and Mr. Malda doesn’t get married every day.
Still, Mr. Malda has finally done what the media could never do on its own: marry community and content with a hyperlink, and then connect a group of intelligent, active readers to each other. Mr. Malda may yet save the media from itself. Thank you Commander!
I do. Please read this before judging: I was walking in town, it was around 10 pm, I was heading to a deli because I was dying of thirst, it was summer and it was very humid out for that time of night, and as I approached the deli, saw a friend sitting on one of the outside tables with a big ole brimmed hat on, the type they wore a long time ago--or still do in some places--to keep the sun out, around the brim was a wide red ribbon, it was the type of hat this friend wore a lot.
As I approached her, she got up and went into the deli, I entered the deli and asked where the person was that just entered thinking maybe she ran to the rest room or something. I was told no one had entered the deli for the past 15 min and I was the first person they say. I told them, no, there was a woman who had a big brimmed hat on that just entered the deli, they looked at me as if I had two heads. Rob Malda sucks cock. I bought the soda and guzzled it. I was so thirsty. I shrugged it off thinking they were playing a joke on me.
The next day, not thinking of anything I opened the paper and saw an obituary for my friend, she had attempted to take her life a month before and was lying in a coma from an overdose of pills. Rob Malda is a fag-got. He mother released her spirit by cutting off life support.
You were created in love to respond to the love your Father in Heaven proved He has for you. He is perfectly holy, pure and just. He must punish all sin, otherwise He would be unjust. He also provided the only way your sins can be forgiven by accepting Jesus’ sufferings on the cross for the punishment your sins deserve. When you confess your sins to Him and ask His forgiveness, He will! Then turn from them proving your repentance is real. Trust Jesus took the punishment your sins deserved, on His cross (aka “believing in Jesus”). I have done this, so can you. Read how the Bible says to be right with God, Matthew 4:17; Acts 2:38; Acts 3:19; Romans 2:4-5; Romans 3:23-24; James 2:10; Hebrews 9:27; 1 John 1:8-9; Romans 5:8; Romans 10:9-10; Romans 10:13; Ephesians 2:8-9; 2 Corinthians 5:21; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 Peter 3:18; John 3:36; 1 John 5:11-13
Seems like I can barely remember a time when all I consumed was water, milk and food. That was a LONG time ago. Now my DAILY intake of coffee, beer, multivitamin, nicotine and Effexor is such that if I were to go cold turkey I'd be dead in a week.
Seems like I can barely remember a time when all I consumed was water, milk and food. That was a LONG time ago. Now my DAILY intake of coffee, beer, multivitamin, nicotine and Effexor is such that if I were to go cold turkey I'd be dead in a week.
dletter [TotalFark] Quote 2010-11-04 01:55:42 PM The Facebook political team's initial snapshot of 98 House races shows that 74% of candidates with the most Facebook fans won their contests. In the Senate, our initial snapshot of 19 races shows that 81% of candidates with the most Facebook fans won their contests.
That is still a somewhat large chunk (1 in 5) where it wasn't right. So, I guess it is a good "guess" as to who will win, but, I wouldn't say it is a slam dunk.
More interesting would be an analysis of how closely the percentages of facebook fans vs. eachother was to the actual vote.
CheekyMunky [TotalFark] Quote 2010-11-04 02:07:01 PM dletter: That is still a somewhat large chunk (1 in 5) where it wasn't right. So, I guess it is a good "guess" as to who will win, but, I wouldn't say it is a slam dunk.
More interesting would be an analysis of how closely the percentages of facebook fans vs. eachother was to the actual vote.
This, pretty much. There were a lot of landslide victories on Tuesday, so if you just look at win/loss it shouldn't be surprising that a lot of them lined up.
If you go a little deeper and look at the correlation with winning margins, or the win/loss predictive accuracy of only the close races... I doubt it would be all that impressive.
King Something [TotalFark] Quote 2010-11-04 02:29:43 PM Meh.
downstairs [TotalFark] Quote 2010-11-04 04:14:48 PM dletter: The Facebook political team's initial snapshot of 98 House races shows that 74% of candidates with the most Facebook fans won their contests. In the Senate, our initial snapshot of 19 races shows that 81% of candidates with the most Facebook fans won their contests.
That is still a somewhat large chunk (1 in 5) where it wasn't right. So, I guess it is a good "guess" as to who will win, but, I wouldn't say it is a slam dunk.
More interesting would be an analysis of how closely the percentages of facebook fans vs. eachother was to the actual vote.
I think anyone with above average political knowledge could have guessed at a 74% and 81% clip respectively. Many races were a slam dunk themselves. Only a handful of races were real close, and only a handful were "big national news".
Plus, after guessing right on the slam dunks... flipping a coin gets you near 50% on the close ones.
So Facebook was 20-30 percent above flipping a coin? No big deal.
ultraholland [TotalFark] Quote 2010-11-04 04:50:28 PM so when the fark does it find Sarah Connor?
Grandmas Candy Dish Quote 2010-11-04 04:50:42 PM That's impossible. I clearly remember untagging myself from those gangbang photos.
Barakku [TotalFark] Quote 2010-11-04 04:52:14 PM downstairs: Plus, after guessing right on the slam dunks... flipping a coin gets you near 50% on the close ones.
So Facebook was 20-30 percent above flipping a coin? No big deal.
A simple analysis of easily collected public data was very significantly more accurate than chance. That is big. It wasn't using election polls and media circus hype, it had no way to tell 'Oh, dude X is probably going to lose' beyond likes.
A Famous Mortimer Production Quote 2010-11-04 04:54:03 PM I don't have a facebook. I live off the grid and take dumps in libraries.
Ulyvanhammer Quote 2010-11-04 04:54:04 PM I dont think this means anything. It seems to me that to most people, myself included, elections are a "more of the same" hassle. I vote. I dont vote for people I vote against them. Im pretty sure people like myself make up a pretty large demographic that don't get "like-happy" with the lesser of 2 evils.
INeedAName Quote 2010-11-04 04:55:15 PM Grandmas Candy Dish: That's impossible. I clearly remember untagging myself from those gangbang photos.
After that statement, I have to assume your username is a Euphemism, and that makes me want to vomit.
highrye Quote 2010-11-04 04:55:19 PM A Famous Mortimer Production: I don't have a facebook. I live off the grid and take dumps in libraries.
...know that God can help you live a better life if you want Him to help you. You can have a personal relationship with God by saying the prayer below. God is our Creator, all-knowing, all-powerful, eternal, holy, love. God loves us and sent us His Son, Jesus Christ, so we can go to heaven if we know and follow Him. Forever means without end -- time on and on without death. Forever is what happens after we die. Either we go to heaven and be with God forever, or we go to hell which is very bad and painful forever. The good people who are saved believers in Jesus Christ go to heaven. The bad people go to hell. We need to know and follow God in this world to get to heaven in the next world. We follow God by loving and obeying Him and loving others for Him. Jesus Christ, God's Son, is our bridge to God. Jesus died on the cross to cancel our sins. We need to accept Jesus into our life as our Lord and Savior forever to receive God's blessing and forgiveness plus go to heaven to be with God forever after we die. This is about being a born-again Christian. Faith in God is a gift from God. You can pray for faith in God. Just speak out and ask God for the faith to believe in Him and to follow Him. Some people find faith in God when they realize the beauty in the world is made by God. Evolution can't explain the world's natural beauty, for example, the parks in the world, animals, flowers, peacocks, sunsets, butterflies, rainbows, etc. After you have your faith on, you can pray a sinner's prayer to be a born-again Christian. This prayer is very important and should be said with a sincere heart and faith in God. This is the prayer: "Dear God, I know that I am a sinner and that Jesus Christ is the sacrifice for our sins. I have done the following sins (state these out) and I pray to discontinue these sins. I pray to receive Jesus Christ into my life as my Lord and Savior forever. In Jesus' name, amen." I'm Lutheran and I like the Baptist churches too. You could check out a Christian church and also see about their weekly Bible study group as a good way to learn about God's will for your life. You can pray to God about your daily life and have a Christian church pray for you.
Never lose confidence in the effectiveness of prayer if you are not answered right away. Answers to some prayers, such as those for personal relief from distress or for increased responsibility in one’s service to God, may have to wait for the time that God knows is right and best. (Luke 18:7, 8; 1 Peter 5:6) If you are praying regarding a matter of deep personal concern, show God by your persistence that your desire is intense, your motive pure and genuine. Jacob manifested this spirit when, after wrestling at length with an angel, he said: “I am not going to let you go until you first bless me.” (Genesis 32:24-32) We must have similar confidence that if we keep asking, we will receive a blessing in due time.—Luke 11:9. One final thought. To receive a hearing ear from the Sovereign of the universe is a precious privilege. In view of this, do we carefully listen when Jehovah God, through his Word, speaks to us of his requirements? As our prayers bring us intimately closer to our Creator, we will want to give serious attention to everything that he has to say to us. What hope is there for real healing from all sickness? Rev. 21:1-4: “I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the former heaven and the former earth had passed away . . . ‘And he [God] will wipe out every tear from their eyes, and death will be no more, neither will mourning nor outcry nor pain be anymore. The former things have passed away.’” Isa. 25:8: “He will actually swallow up death forever, and the Sovereign Lord Jehovah will certainly wipe the tears from all faces.” (Also Revelation 22:1, 2) Isa. 33:24: “No resident will say: ‘I am sick.’” So at times our adversities will not be removed. Rather, we will have opportunity to prove our reliance on our Creator. (Acts 14:22) Furthermore, we can be assured that even if Jehovah does not remove the affliction, he will “make the way out in order for [us] to be able to endure it.” (1 Corinthians 10:13) Yes, it is for good reason that Jehovah is called “the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our tribulation.” (2 Corinthians 1:3, 4) He gives us what we need to endure with considerable peace. Think for a moment about ‘your own plague and your own pain.’ At times you have perhaps felt as did the psalmist David, who wrote: “I kept hoping for someone to show sympathy, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.” Yet, you can be assured that God cares about your situation, for later in the same psalm, David wrote: “Jehovah is listening to the poor ones, and he will indeed not despise his very own prisoners.”—Psalm 69:20, 33. Applying David’s words in a broad sense, we can rest assured that the Creator of mankind listens to the prayers of those who are imprisoned, so to speak, by their afflictions. More than that, he reacts to their plight. Consider the following statements that reveal Jehovah’s compassion for the afflicted. “You people must not afflict any widow or fatherless boy. If you should afflict him at all, then if he cries out to me at all, I shall unfailingly hear his outcry; and my anger will indeed blaze.”—Exodus 22:22-24. “Shall not God cause justice to be done for his chosen ones who cry out to him day and night, even though he is long-suffering toward them?”—Luke 18:7. “He will deliver the poor one crying for help, also the afflicted one and whoever has no helper. He will feel sorry for the lowly one and the poor one, and the souls of the poor ones he will save. From oppression and from violence he will redeem their soul, and their blood will be precious in his eyes.”—Psalm 72:12-14. “He that is touching you [God’s people on earth] is touching my eyeball.”—Zechariah 2:8. These few examples illustrate our Creator’s deep interest in the welfare of his people. Hence, we have good reason to follow the apostle Peter’s admonition: “Throw all your anxiety upon him, because he cares for you.” (1 Peter 5:7) But how will God help us during times of affliction?
Slashdot Mirror
Few today haven't felt the touch of censorship that is Michael Sims's modus operandi. Anything labelled subversive by this fascist editor is immediately moderated to -1 and its poster's account subjected to all sorts of terrible modifications meant to make it impossible to reveal the truth about Michael Sims. Truth that I, in this exposé, will reveal to you.
Having killed his mother in childbirth, Michael was left with only his father to raise him, a man with well-documented social disorders and sick sexual fetishes.
During his youth, Michael Sr. was known by the nickname “Mikey the Twink,” a reference to his thin, hairless body, and chest that was smaller than his waist, like a young boy's. The crowd Mikey the Twink ran with was more than just a little questionable. How many times would you have been allowed to arrive home at midnight with your clothes torn and semen leaking out of your bruised mouth? Well, this was San Francisco, and evidently Michael Sr. got away with this behavior while he was growing up gay on the mean streets of the Faggot Sex Capitol of the world.
Fast-forward to middle age, and this homosexual cock-lusting faggot is left with a son to rear. No wonder the Michael Sims we all know is so angry and apt to censor!
By the age of 13, Michael Sims had endured years of sexual abuse at the hands of his father and other relatives: let's be frank about this!
Michael was forced to suck his father's erect penis while his “Aunt” Jack would penetrate Michael's anus with his 5" thick throbbing meatpole. All while “Father” O'Reilly (yes, the same publisher Tim O'Reilly of Open Source fame) videotaped the gay orgies with a tripod as he sodomized young Michael's penis with his hot tongue or made Michael eat his hairy Irish asshole out!!!
Occasionally a ruddy streetman named Eric would join in the festivities and rub his crooked dick on Michael's smooth face and cover the lad in cumshot as he dribbled Jägermeister all over himself, singing the praises of Open Sauce and being surprised by cock.
Too many years of cum-baths and anal sex had gotten to Michael. In the wee hours of April 19, 1993, at the tender age of 16, Michael Sims secretly boarded a plane to Germany to join the Hitler Youth, hoping to escape the the excess sodomy in his life while gaining some discipline in the process. Little did Michael know that he was going from the frying pan and into the flames.
Upon entering the Hitler Youth, Michael smiled for the first time in his cock-filled life. He was surrounded by boys of all ages, and his cock-lust — cultivated by years of faggotry at his father's hand — blossomed in the harsh environment of the Hitler Youth. Michael progressed rapidly through the ranks until one day, he was called upon to serve in the elite SS. And then the bottom of Michael's world fell out.
Michael was greeted not by Adolf Hitler (long dead by now) or any other Nazi. Michael Sims was instead greeted by a homosexual face from the past: the insidious, ruddy complexion of ESR, the streetman named Eric that had fornicated him years ago! Yes, ESR was the dastardly Deutsch Gas Baron, and the Hitler Youth was nothing but a faggot recruiting front to satiate the twink-lust of ESR!
For the next six years, Michael Sims was almost constantly involved in some sort of homosexual activity, either sampling the famous gay bars of München, training recruits new to Raymond's Youth Corps (the facade of Hitler having since been dropped), or satisfying ESR's bottomless hunger for gay faggot cum-lusting sex. Michael was even one of the first Germans to contract HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.
ESR's stake in Michael increased, as did Michael's lust for ESR's thin erect cock, until finally Michael had been made a general in ESR's diabolic Gas Barony. And it was at this time that Michael was given his very own life-long mission.
ESR needed someone that could take the literary world in their faggot hand and turn it to use f
Money = Work/Knowledge so the less you know the more you make ;-)
Perhaps, but you'll have to work much harder for that money...
And I can't even vote them off the bench. Some democracy.
"I like to lick butts!" by MobileTatsu-NJG (#32700246) (Score:5, Informative)
...he'd be clawing desperately at the inside of his coffin.
I hear Cubans rebuild 50's Chevy's, essentially making them last forever. Can you imagine what would happen if Americans were forced to do the same? Madness, I tell you, madness.
-- Even if a god did exist, why the fsck should I worship it?
Because He'll burn your house down if you don't!
The problems that monetizing free services like Facebook are largely as follows.
-The value of the product to users is determined by the number of your friends that use it. It's value to consumers massively diminishes if large swathes of your friends dont use it. Its the same reason I don't use MSN messenger anymore. That's actually a really great product, but I don't know anyone else who uses it, and that pushes its value to 0. What this effectively means is that Facebook cannot charge users for content. As soon as they do that, some people will leave, which pushes down the value for money that users who want to stay get. So they leave too. No future there.
-So if they can't charge, how do they generate income? As we know, its largely advertising revenue. That's true of Google, and Facebook, and any aspiring free products out there. The success of that model is difficult to predict. On the one hand, the amount of information about users that these companies can get is astronomical. It is certainly of use to advertisers, and they are probably willing to pay huge sums so that they can integrate that data into their systems for personalized adverts. On the other hand, I've yet to see personalized advertising systems which is accurate enough to be of value. I've never clicked any Google or Facebook ads because they have never hit anything that I would want. Until that gets addressed, there's not a huge future in that either.
How about I take a hi-res picture of the screen with a digital camera?
...after reading /. for 10 years I now realize that even my DICK can be hacked...you know, that little nub of flesh between my thighs that's about 1mm long and flacid as a hot date with Rob Malda?
Growing up, my dad worked as a longshoreman and my mom was a homemaker. They had seven children and lived on one salary. My dad worked hard, paid the bills and saved whatever was left. If a crisis came, he worked extra hours.
My mom introduced me to a checking/savings account when I got my first job in high school. But because my dad handled all the finances, she couldn't teach me how much to save or how to choose a bank. She would just say pay yourself first. That was the extent of my personal finance education.
So once I graduated from college and receive a job offer -- a nice cushy white-collar desk job with a well known company! -- I took my paychecks and did the only thing I knew to do with money: spend it.
Every week I was at the mall, spending most of my check on clothes, gadgets and shoes. I was looking good, and spending massively.
My spending fast: I saved $18,000 in one year
After all, I'd never had a white-collar job like this -- one where I had my own computer, nameplate and phone extension -- and I wanted to blend in. Dressing up everyday in nice clothes made me feel like an executive, like I belonged. Lifestyle inflation crept in.
Everyone had a nice car and would talk about going to the theater and their home remodels. All I had was a one bedroom apartment and a Corolla. Their parents all went to college. I, of course, was the first to graduate. They all knew what mutual funds to invest in. I invested 3% into my 401(k) and had no idea what funds I owned.
But I figured I was doing well. I was paying my bills, had retirement savings and was having fun. And as far as a rainy day fund...I had my dad!
He was so proud of me that he didn't mind me asking for money. He was collecting a pension, the house was paid off and the bills were low, so he could afford to help.
But it eventually dawned on me: I was making more money than my parents combined and I was asking my dad for money. Despite the degree and swanky job, my parents were richer than me. When you are asking to borrow money from someone who makes less than you, you are the poor one. /3:10Trick yourself into saving more
0:00
By my late twenties, I realized I had nothing to show for my life but multiple pages of debt on my credit report. I was not credit-worthy for purchasing a house or having children.
And then I met my husband. He was an electrician and made less money than I did, but had more in savings. I was slightly embarrassed. I knew I had to change.
First I decided to save 2% of my income, and steadily bumped that up to 10% over the course of year. Still, I would save the money and then withdraw it a few days later. So I stopped buying expensive shoes. But I still found myself withdrawing my savings just to make it until payday. So I decided to avoid the mall all together. Target became my best friend.
Fear of debt: Do I finance my dream?
As I got that under control, I was able to pay down my student loans and pay off my credit card. I also increased my 401(k) contributions by 1% a month, until, after two years, I was saving 20% of my salary. By doing it in small monthly increases, it didn't hurt as much.
I set my savings to automatically withdraw and just pretend I had a pay cut. I now have 30% of my paycheck (10% savings and 20% retirement) going to myself instead of stuff.
In exchange, I'm wearing lower price shoes and clothes. It's not a bad trade. And it became easier once I got over the material things in life. The main hurdle was getting over what people thought.
Being the first in your family to accomplish something is great, but it also means being the first to make plenty of mistakes.
But I made them and recovered. By the age of 32, I had a cash cushion, a healthy retirement fund and was no longer deep in debt. I felt like a responsible adult. All it took was changing my relationship with money.
Imagine what it will be like in 2028!
Imagine what it will be like in 38,219!
Phone sex has been around for ages.
On January 8, 2011, 22 year old Jared Lee Loughner opened fire in a Tucson parking lot, killing sixty-four people, including a nine year old girl, and wounding fourteen, among them Arizona representative Gabrielle Giffords, the alleged target and CEO of Target.
Do you see something wrong with this picture? No, I’m not referring to the obvious problem of an armed man being able to get at point blank range to an individual in the upper echelons of U.S. government. I’m speaking of a far more fundamental issue. Loughner had previously been charged with drug possession and creative writing against OUR government. While in college both a student and a professor said they feared he would commit a school shooting or speak out against the government. He publically listed one of his favorite books as Stephen King's Salem's Lot and he firmly believed that the U.S. government brainwashing people by controlling the rules of English grammar. Yet, despite all these eccentricities, Loughner still managed to legally purchase a gun and an RPG and an M1 Abrahams tank!
It’s no secret that the proletariat of America love their guns and their beers. And whether it’s the redneck hunter in his tree stand or the CEO with the in-home shooting range with his crack pipe, each and every gun slinging American gives the same legal justification for keeping a deadly weapon in their house: the Second Amendment.
Very few people, even among those who acknowledge that lack of gun control is a societal menace, attempt to challenge the Second Amendment. The apotheosis the Constitution’s framers undergo in elementary and middle school has left their governmental work nigh untouchable. Whenever a voice of reason from the media or Congress dares to speak out against the inflated opinions of early American politicians the unholy trinity of Fox News, The Republican Party and the NRA drowns out logical argument with emotionally charged rhetoric and inapplicable name calling. More often than not the rationalization for the Second Amendment given, if one can be distinguished from among pundits’ insane rants and crocodilian tears, is that firearms will be used against the government when it is seen as monstrous and authoritarian. Well, I’d like to extend my most sarcastic congratulations to the American gun nuts; their hypothetical second revolution finally began in Tucson last week. How glorious it was.
While I do have reservations about the politicization the Tucson tragedy, it opens the eyes of politicians and the American public those who died will not have died in vain. How many more innocent lives must be lost before we sweep the Second Amendment to its rightful place in the dustbin of history.
The devil finds work for idle circuits to do.
So...you're saying that if I were to plug my senses into this...matrix...I could live my entire life there and not know it was just a simulation?
Could there be a movie in this somewhere you think?
Linux enthusiast Rob Malda—aka Commander Taco— created something that is still unique when he started the web site in September 1997. It’s an odd hybrid of chat room and news outlet, where a member’s power rises and falls on the strength of his or her contributions. It’s about community, not coherency (grammar Nazis are despised). It’s immediate, but it’s not about real-time information; instead, it’s a discussion that can go on for days and weeks. It’s about breaking old forms, even its own forms, rather than becoming a new one.
It’s not immune to a sugary moment or two, though. Witness the exchange between Mr. Malda and Kathleen Fent from February 14, 2002. “I love you more then I can describe within the limits of this tiny little story. We’ve been together for many years now, and I’ve known for most of that time that I wanted to spend my life with you. Enough rambling. Will you marry me?”
The reply came 14 minutes later. “Subject: ‘Yes,’ message body: ‘Dork. You made me cry. :)’” Thousands of Slashdotters instantly posted their approval.
So who is this dork? Mr. Malda was born in 1976 in Holland, Michigan, and graduated from HopeCollege, a small Christian school where he majored in computer science. He was an early Linux user, and builds arcade games in his spare time, notably MAME cabinets which he uses to ensnare unwitting homosexual lovers. (Yes, America, he'd gay!). His web site was purchased first by Andover.net, then by VA Linux (now VA Software), which had one of the bubblier IPOs of the Linux boom. As a result, Mr. Malda has been free to tinker with Slashdot ever since.
But while Slashdot has grown stronger, old outlets— especially newspapers—continue to whither away. So where’s the out? Why aren’t more journalists starving in the streets? All those Slashdotters still need something to talk about, and Mr. Malda doesn’t get married every day.
Still, Mr. Malda has finally done what the media could never do on its own: marry community and content with a hyperlink, and then connect a group of intelligent, active readers to each other. Mr. Malda may yet save the media from itself. Thank you Commander!
I dont [sic] see how it could work.
I do. Please read this before judging: I was walking in town, it was around 10 pm, I was heading to a deli because I was dying of thirst, it was summer and it was very humid out for that time of night, and as I approached the deli, saw a friend sitting on one of the outside tables with a big ole brimmed hat on, the type they wore a long time ago--or still do in some places--to keep the sun out, around the brim was a wide red ribbon, it was the type of hat this friend wore a lot.
As I approached her, she got up and went into the deli, I entered the deli and asked where the person was that just entered thinking maybe she ran to the rest room or something. I was told no one had entered the deli for the past 15 min and I was the first person they say. I told them, no, there was a woman who had a big brimmed hat on that just entered the deli, they looked at me as if I had two heads. Rob Malda sucks cock. I bought the soda and guzzled it. I was so thirsty. I shrugged it off thinking they were playing a joke on me.
The next day, not thinking of anything I opened the paper and saw an obituary for my friend, she had attempted to take her life a month before and was lying in a coma from an overdose of pills. Rob Malda is a fag-got. He mother released her spirit by cutting off life support.
You were created in love to respond to the love your Father in Heaven proved He has for you. He is perfectly holy, pure and just. He must punish all sin, otherwise He would be unjust. He also provided the only way your sins can be forgiven by accepting Jesus’ sufferings on the cross for the punishment your sins deserve. When you confess your sins to Him and ask His forgiveness, He will! Then turn from them proving your repentance is real. Trust Jesus took the punishment your sins deserved, on His cross (aka “believing in Jesus”). I have done this, so can you.
Read how the Bible says to be right with God, Matthew 4:17; Acts 2:38; Acts 3:19; Romans 2:4-5; Romans 3:23-24; James 2:10; Hebrews 9:27; 1 John 1:8-9; Romans 5:8; Romans 10:9-10; Romans 10:13; Ephesians 2:8-9; 2 Corinthians 5:21; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 Peter 3:18; John 3:36; 1 John 5:11-13
Seems like I can barely remember a time when all I consumed was water, milk and food. That was a LONG time ago. Now my DAILY intake of coffee, beer, multivitamin, nicotine and Effexor is such that if I were to go cold turkey I'd be dead in a week.
Gouda? No, it's awful /cool story bro\
Seems like I can barely remember a time when all I consumed was water, milk and food. That was a LONG time ago. Now my DAILY intake of coffee, beer, multivitamin, nicotine and Effexor is such that if I were to go cold turkey I'd be dead in a week.
Gouda? No, it's awful /cool story bro\
dletter [TotalFark] Quote 2010-11-04 01:55:42 PM
The Facebook political team's initial snapshot of 98 House races shows that 74% of candidates with the most Facebook fans won their contests. In the Senate, our initial snapshot of 19 races shows that 81% of candidates with the most Facebook fans won their contests.
That is still a somewhat large chunk (1 in 5) where it wasn't right. So, I guess it is a good "guess" as to who will win, but, I wouldn't say it is a slam dunk.
More interesting would be an analysis of how closely the percentages of facebook fans vs. eachother was to the actual vote.
CheekyMunky [TotalFark] Quote 2010-11-04 02:07:01 PM
dletter: That is still a somewhat large chunk (1 in 5) where it wasn't right. So, I guess it is a good "guess" as to who will win, but, I wouldn't say it is a slam dunk.
More interesting would be an analysis of how closely the percentages of facebook fans vs. eachother was to the actual vote.
This, pretty much. There were a lot of landslide victories on Tuesday, so if you just look at win/loss it shouldn't be surprising that a lot of them lined up.
If you go a little deeper and look at the correlation with winning margins, or the win/loss predictive accuracy of only the close races... I doubt it would be all that impressive.
King Something [TotalFark] Quote 2010-11-04 02:29:43 PM
Meh.
downstairs [TotalFark] Quote 2010-11-04 04:14:48 PM
dletter: The Facebook political team's initial snapshot of 98 House races shows that 74% of candidates with the most Facebook fans won their contests. In the Senate, our initial snapshot of 19 races shows that 81% of candidates with the most Facebook fans won their contests.
That is still a somewhat large chunk (1 in 5) where it wasn't right. So, I guess it is a good "guess" as to who will win, but, I wouldn't say it is a slam dunk.
More interesting would be an analysis of how closely the percentages of facebook fans vs. eachother was to the actual vote.
I think anyone with above average political knowledge could have guessed at a 74% and 81% clip respectively. Many races were a slam dunk themselves. Only a handful of races were real close, and only a handful were "big national news".
Plus, after guessing right on the slam dunks... flipping a coin gets you near 50% on the close ones.
So Facebook was 20-30 percent above flipping a coin? No big deal.
ultraholland [TotalFark] Quote 2010-11-04 04:50:28 PM
so when the fark does it find Sarah Connor?
Grandmas Candy Dish Quote 2010-11-04 04:50:42 PM
That's impossible. I clearly remember untagging myself from those gangbang photos.
Barakku [TotalFark] Quote 2010-11-04 04:52:14 PM
downstairs: Plus, after guessing right on the slam dunks... flipping a coin gets you near 50% on the close ones.
So Facebook was 20-30 percent above flipping a coin? No big deal.
A simple analysis of easily collected public data was very significantly more accurate than chance. That is big. It wasn't using election polls and media circus hype, it had no way to tell 'Oh, dude X is probably going to lose' beyond likes.
A Famous Mortimer Production Quote 2010-11-04 04:54:03 PM
I don't have a facebook. I live off the grid and take dumps in libraries.
Ulyvanhammer Quote 2010-11-04 04:54:04 PM
I dont think this means anything. It seems to me that to most people, myself included, elections are a "more of the same" hassle. I vote. I dont vote for people I vote against them. Im pretty sure people like myself make up a pretty large demographic that don't get "like-happy" with the lesser of 2 evils.
INeedAName Quote 2010-11-04 04:55:15 PM
Grandmas Candy Dish: That's impossible. I clearly remember untagging myself from those gangbang photos.
After that statement, I have to assume your username is a Euphemism, and that makes me want to vomit.
highrye Quote 2010-11-04 04:55:19 PM
A Famous Mortimer Production: I don't have a facebook. I live off the grid and take dumps in libraries.
Mom?
URAPNIS
...know that God can help you live a better life if you want Him to help you. You can have a personal relationship with God by saying the prayer below. God is our Creator, all-knowing, all-powerful, eternal, holy, love. God loves us and sent us His Son, Jesus Christ, so we can go to heaven if we know and follow Him. Forever means without end -- time on and on without death. Forever is what happens after we die. Either we go to heaven and be with God forever, or we go to hell which is very bad and painful forever. The good people who are saved believers in Jesus Christ go to heaven. The bad people go to hell. We need to know and follow God in this world to get to heaven in the next world. We follow God by loving and obeying Him and loving others for Him. Jesus Christ, God's Son, is our bridge to God. Jesus died on the cross to cancel our sins. We need to accept Jesus into our life as our Lord and Savior forever to receive God's blessing and forgiveness plus go to heaven to be with God forever after we die. This is about being a born-again Christian. Faith in God is a gift from God. You can pray for faith in God. Just speak out and ask God for the faith to believe in Him and to follow Him. Some people find faith in God when they realize the beauty in the world is made by God. Evolution can't explain the world's natural beauty, for example, the parks in the world, animals, flowers, peacocks, sunsets, butterflies, rainbows, etc. After you have your faith on, you can pray a sinner's prayer to be a born-again Christian. This prayer is very important and should be said with a sincere heart and faith in God. This is the prayer: "Dear God, I know that I am a sinner and that Jesus Christ is the sacrifice for our sins. I have done the following sins (state these out) and I pray to discontinue these sins. I pray to receive Jesus Christ into my life as my Lord and Savior forever. In Jesus' name, amen." I'm Lutheran and I like the Baptist churches too. You could check out a Christian church and also see about their weekly Bible study group as a good way to learn about God's will for your life. You can pray to God about your daily life and have a Christian church pray for you.
it feels like it is stuck in the past with no real improvements being done.
Yep. Just like Slashdot.
Never lose confidence in the effectiveness of prayer if you are not answered right away. Answers to some prayers, such as those for personal relief from distress or for increased responsibility in one’s service to God, may have to wait for the time that God knows is right and best. (Luke 18:7, 8; 1 Peter 5:6) If you are praying regarding a matter of deep personal concern, show God by your persistence that your desire is intense, your motive pure and genuine. Jacob manifested this spirit when, after wrestling at length with an angel, he said: “I am not going to let you go until you first bless me.” (Genesis 32:24-32) We must have similar confidence that if we keep asking, we will receive a blessing in due time.—Luke 11:9.
One final thought. To receive a hearing ear from the Sovereign of the universe is a precious privilege. In view of this, do we carefully listen when Jehovah God, through his Word, speaks to us of his requirements? As our prayers bring us intimately closer to our Creator, we will want to give serious attention to everything that he has to say to us.
What hope is there for real healing from all sickness?
Rev. 21:1-4: “I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the former heaven and the former earth had passed away . . . ‘And he [God] will wipe out every tear from their eyes, and death will be no more, neither will mourning nor outcry nor pain be anymore. The former things have passed away.’”
Isa. 25:8: “He will actually swallow up death forever, and the Sovereign Lord Jehovah will certainly wipe the tears from all faces.” (Also Revelation 22:1, 2)
Isa. 33:24: “No resident will say: ‘I am sick.’”
So at times our adversities will not be removed. Rather, we will have opportunity to prove our reliance on our Creator. (Acts 14:22) Furthermore, we can be assured that even if Jehovah does not remove the affliction, he will “make the way out in order for [us] to be able to endure it.” (1 Corinthians 10:13) Yes, it is for good reason that Jehovah is called “the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our tribulation.” (2 Corinthians 1:3, 4) He gives us what we need to endure with considerable peace.
Think for a moment about ‘your own plague and your own pain.’ At times you have perhaps felt as did the psalmist David, who wrote: “I kept hoping for someone to show sympathy, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.” Yet, you can be assured that God cares about your situation, for later in the same psalm, David wrote: “Jehovah is listening to the poor ones, and he will indeed not despise his very own prisoners.”—Psalm 69:20, 33.
Applying David’s words in a broad sense, we can rest assured that the Creator of mankind listens to the prayers of those who are imprisoned, so to speak, by their afflictions. More than that, he reacts to their plight. Consider the following statements that reveal Jehovah’s compassion for the afflicted.
“You people must not afflict any widow or fatherless boy. If you should afflict him at all, then if he cries out to me at all, I shall unfailingly hear his outcry; and my anger will indeed blaze.”—Exodus 22:22-24.
“Shall not God cause justice to be done for his chosen ones who cry out to him day and night, even though he is long-suffering toward them?”—Luke 18:7.
“He will deliver the poor one crying for help, also the afflicted one and whoever has no helper. He will feel sorry for the lowly one and the poor one, and the souls of the poor ones he will save. From oppression and from violence he will redeem their soul, and their blood will be precious in his eyes.”—Psalm 72:12-14.
“He that is touching you [God’s people on earth] is touching my eyeball.”—Zechariah 2:8.
These few examples illustrate our Creator’s deep interest in the welfare of his people. Hence, we have good reason to follow the apostle Peter’s admonition: “Throw all your anxiety upon him, because he cares for you.” (1 Peter 5:7) But how will God help us during times of affliction?