I'm from PA as well, I also remember when the state police had a disagreement about their contract with Gov Ridge and they agreed to only give warnings to people who were doing less than 20 Mph over the speed limit. When facing this loss of revenue, Gov Ridge's administration caved in.
When I get pulled over, I hope it's the state police. In my experience, PA State Troopers are the most professional police officers in the state. There is no ego bullshit, there is no tough guy bullshit and there is no talking down to you. They look at your papers and if everything is in order, they either write you a ticket or they don't but they do it without fucking with you.
Teenagers don't get many of the 80s specific jokes on the show. Seth made that show for people in his age group. Those of us in late 20s through mid thirties are the ones who watch the show. When it's not preempted for racing, football or some other gay ass sporting event.
No. DVD sales is what brought the show back from the dead.
Fox seems like they're actively trying to fuck it up again. Every time I turn it on to watch Family Guy, there's some bullshit sports event on. Before they had to cancel it the first time, they kept putting on sports and moving it around so that the fans lost interest.
A picture of the Virgin Mary having sex with a pig. There is a cartoon bubble extending from her mouth and in between moans she says "Well, I'm not eating it."
That's similar to how Muslims view a picture of Muhammad with a bomb for a turban.
You're entitled to believe anything that you wish, even if it's wrong.
They must be. They perpetuate myths and pursue agendas that harm society and subjugate entire populations.
You are ignorant of history. Organized religions are far from perfect. They're not always even good, but they have done much that was positive. It was primarily Christians who harbored Jews who sought to escape the holocaust.
For thousands of years, Christians and Jews have been the world's greatest benefactors of charity. For over a thousand years, Muslims have provided for widows and orphans. It was because of those religions that the western views of women evolved. Women were once seen as no different than property. Because of practitioners of Judiasm and Christianity, the treatment in society evolved. Islam actually codifies rights for women.
I'm a Christian, I only mention that because I am in no way offended by images of Jesus. Sure, the depictions are probably massively wrong (white man, blue eyes, long hair) but they don't offend me. I just don't get why an image can be so offensive.
It's different. As a Christian, you believe that Jesus was at the very least the begotten son of God, or depending on your denomination God in the flesh. Muslims believe that Muhammad was just a man. They are expressly forbidden from worshipping graven images(as are you), but the argument can be made that someone's estimate of what God looked like when he walked the earth is not exactly a graven image.
Yes it will take time to achieve any results, but economic prosperity and theism are inversely related, and theism in places like Pakistan is really fucked up and needs to be eliminated or at least marginalized.
Yeah, because we all know that making money is the only thing that matters in life.
If your friends want your expertise they will come to you and ask. If you offer it unasked-for, they will probably never ask and will go to someone else.
When your friends ignore your advice and end up in a bad situation, that can tax a friendship too. About two years ago, I told my girlfriend not to leave her laptop on the coffee table because her kids would eat and drink while using it and fuck it up. Did she listen? NOOOOOOOO. What happened to her laptop? It's fucked up right now.
When I moved my laptop from a tuned Gentoo (einit) to Debian I was really happy to know suspend is finally in the kernel - it would take forever to boot.
When I went to 2.6.23, it was before Mandriva had an officially blessed update available, hell they still might not, but I had to patch in tuxonice and modify my init scripts to work with it and write a daemon to automate the hibernation process. It was kind of annoying, but not a very big deal. There is a reason why we're not running Windows on everything. We don't mind having to fix things every once in a while, because with linux, GNU and other open source we have the ability to fix things.
Vulcanian
Do you mean Vulcan?
In a year's time we'll probably have a winner... or, let them be two years.
This is wishful thinking. Here we are a decade on and we still have debs, rpms and tarballs. None of this will be settled. Everyone had their own reasons for doing things the way they did, why do you think that they'll change just because someone else did?
I have been the victim of retaliatory feedback. I think that this change is fantastic. In the end it was necessary because of sellers who abused the feedback system. If I buy a few items per month but a seller sells hundreds per week, that retaliatory feedback hurts me more than my initial negative feedback hurts them.
eBay claims that more buyers complained about retaliatory feedback, or what I call feedback blackmail which is the threat of retaliatory negative feedback, than about getting ripped off by fraudulent sellers.
This guy lost me when he started singing the praises of Ruby On Rails by claiming that it "offer more out-of-the-boxWeb support and a cleaner integration into the webpage experience"
When people start giving verbal fellatio to Ruby on Rails without giving concrete details, I know that they're full of shit.
Once, I was explaining to a friend of mine an application that I wrote in Perl. He asked me why I didn't choose something newer, like Ruby on Rails. I told him that I used Perl because I knew it. I then asked him some questions about Ruby and he didn't know the answers to any of them. Nothing that should have been too difficult. I asked him about things like type conversion and whether it was a compiled or interpreted. He was like "I use a Mac. I don't know."
Perl is so widespread because it's powerful. I won't be writing any device drivers in it, but it's useful for a LOT of other things.
Does anyone have an idea when tuxonice will be re-merged? I know that most of the heavy lifting is done is userspace, but it would be nice if we didn't have constantly track down patches.
One of the best managers that I ever worked for had this way of taking it when upper management shit on us and actually making it sound good.
"We've had to streamline the budget, so you'll all have 10% few hours on each of your pet projects. This will give us an opportunity to show everyone what efficient programmers we are."
We'd leave meetings like, "FUCK YEAH, we're going to show those guys!" It took me about six months before I realized what he was doing.
Can't expect MBAs to understand the difference between good code and bad code, to them it's all just code, and as far as their concerned, the more the better.
Sometimes you can get lucky and get a department head who worked his or her way up from your position. They tend to be a bit more understanding than some empty suit who never coded an app. Although this isn't always enough, sometimes even an understanding Department Head needs to get approval from someone higher up than themselves to greenlight a major project and in that case everything falls apart again.
On the grand scheme of things that makes sense. If it were up to the programmers themselves, deadlines would usually be much longer because we are often perfectionists. We'd rather take a bit longer and release a product as near perfect as possible. Sometimes "good enough" is, in fact good enough.
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I'm from PA as well, I also remember when the state police had a disagreement about their contract with Gov Ridge and they agreed to only give warnings to people who were doing less than 20 Mph over the speed limit. When facing this loss of revenue, Gov Ridge's administration caved in.
When I get pulled over, I hope it's the state police. In my experience, PA State Troopers are the most professional police officers in the state. There is no ego bullshit, there is no tough guy bullshit and there is no talking down to you. They look at your papers and if everything is in order, they either write you a ticket or they don't but they do it without fucking with you.
LK
Why in the fuck is your company writing "investment firm" software in the kernel?
LK
Teenagers don't get many of the 80s specific jokes on the show. Seth made that show for people in his age group. Those of us in late 20s through mid thirties are the ones who watch the show. When it's not preempted for racing, football or some other gay ass sporting event.
LK
Fuck you, the Jeffersons WAS a spin off and it rocked.
LK
No. DVD sales is what brought the show back from the dead.
Fox seems like they're actively trying to fuck it up again. Every time I turn it on to watch Family Guy, there's some bullshit sports event on. Before they had to cancel it the first time, they kept putting on sports and moving it around so that the fans lost interest.
LK
That's similar to how Muslims view a picture of Muhammad with a bomb for a turban.
LK
I do believe they are evil men/women.
You're entitled to believe anything that you wish, even if it's wrong.
They must be. They perpetuate myths and pursue agendas that harm society and subjugate entire populations.
You are ignorant of history. Organized religions are far from perfect. They're not always even good, but they have done much that was positive. It was primarily Christians who harbored Jews who sought to escape the holocaust.
For thousands of years, Christians and Jews have been the world's greatest benefactors of charity. For over a thousand years, Muslims have provided for widows and orphans. It was because of those religions that the western views of women evolved. Women were once seen as no different than property. Because of practitioners of Judiasm and Christianity, the treatment in society evolved. Islam actually codifies rights for women.
LK
The US is a rather religious place and we make a shit-load of money here.
Some religious people are real fucktards, but the vast majority are decent people. The few douches out there don't negate the good of all the rest.
LK
We need a night of long knives where every imam, every priest, every rabbi, every religious "leader" wakes up with a slit throat.
Yeah, violence is the best way to solve the world's problems.
LK
I'm a Christian, I only mention that because I am in no way offended by images of Jesus. Sure, the depictions are probably massively wrong (white man, blue eyes, long hair) but they don't offend me. I just don't get why an image can be so offensive.
It's different. As a Christian, you believe that Jesus was at the very least the begotten son of God, or depending on your denomination God in the flesh. Muslims believe that Muhammad was just a man. They are expressly forbidden from worshipping graven images(as are you), but the argument can be made that someone's estimate of what God looked like when he walked the earth is not exactly a graven image.
LK
Yes it will take time to achieve any results, but economic prosperity and theism are inversely related, and theism in places like Pakistan is really fucked up and needs to be eliminated or at least marginalized.
Yeah, because we all know that making money is the only thing that matters in life.
L
The way he saw it, Gore stood in his way. Al Gore was not entitled to anyone's vote.
If Gore had gotten out of the race, maybe Nader would have won.
LK
Sounds more like a Mac commercial.
LK
If your friends want your expertise they will come to you and ask. If you offer it unasked-for, they will probably never ask and will go to someone else.
When your friends ignore your advice and end up in a bad situation, that can tax a friendship too. About two years ago, I told my girlfriend not to leave her laptop on the coffee table because her kids would eat and drink while using it and fuck it up. Did she listen? NOOOOOOOO. What happened to her laptop? It's fucked up right now.
LK
When I moved my laptop from a tuned Gentoo (einit) to Debian I was really happy to know suspend is finally in the kernel - it would take forever to boot.
When I went to 2.6.23, it was before Mandriva had an officially blessed update available, hell they still might not, but I had to patch in tuxonice and modify my init scripts to work with it and write a daemon to automate the hibernation process. It was kind of annoying, but not a very big deal. There is a reason why we're not running Windows on everything. We don't mind having to fix things every once in a while, because with linux, GNU and other open source we have the ability to fix things.
Vulcanian
Do you mean Vulcan?
In a year's time we'll probably have a winner... or, let them be two years.
This is wishful thinking. Here we are a decade on and we still have debs, rpms and tarballs. None of this will be settled. Everyone had their own reasons for doing things the way they did, why do you think that they'll change just because someone else did?
LK
I think that Tribes was meant to be pirated. It was multiplayer only, no copy protection and didn't have any registry dependencies from the installer.
I felt so bad about ripping that game off that I bought Tribes 2. It sucked.
LK
It's not like requiring the original media has killed any console. Console gaming is larger than PC gaming these days.
Who cares?
Adults.
LK
Gunbroker.com ends their auctions 15 minutes after the last successful bid. So, the gun auction website stops snipers.
LK
I have been the victim of retaliatory feedback. I think that this change is fantastic. In the end it was necessary because of sellers who abused the feedback system. If I buy a few items per month but a seller sells hundreds per week, that retaliatory feedback hurts me more than my initial negative feedback hurts them.
eBay claims that more buyers complained about retaliatory feedback, or what I call feedback blackmail which is the threat of retaliatory negative feedback, than about getting ripped off by fraudulent sellers.
LK
Canada's obsession of not offending anyone or any religion (except for whites of course)
Yeah, because we all know how bad THEY have it.
LK
I'd recommend Canada to get around Germany's prohibited speech laws.
WHAT? Have you ever heard of Ernst Zündel? He was put on trial in Canada for denying the holocaust.
How about Fred Leuchter? His career is in the toilet for helping Zündel's defence.
Canada is no bastion of freedom. Switzerland has the best privacy laws, the US has the best free speech protections.
LK
This guy lost me when he started singing the praises of Ruby On Rails by claiming that it "offer more out-of-the-box Web support and a cleaner integration into the webpage experience"
When people start giving verbal fellatio to Ruby on Rails without giving concrete details, I know that they're full of shit.
Once, I was explaining to a friend of mine an application that I wrote in Perl. He asked me why I didn't choose something newer, like Ruby on Rails. I told him that I used Perl because I knew it. I then asked him some questions about Ruby and he didn't know the answers to any of them. Nothing that should have been too difficult. I asked him about things like type conversion and whether it was a compiled or interpreted. He was like "I use a Mac. I don't know."
Perl is so widespread because it's powerful. I won't be writing any device drivers in it, but it's useful for a LOT of other things.
LK
Does anyone have an idea when tuxonice will be re-merged? I know that most of the heavy lifting is done is userspace, but it would be nice if we didn't have constantly track down patches.
LK
One of the best managers that I ever worked for had this way of taking it when upper management shit on us and actually making it sound good.
"We've had to streamline the budget, so you'll all have 10% few hours on each of your pet projects. This will give us an opportunity to show everyone what efficient programmers we are."
We'd leave meetings like, "FUCK YEAH, we're going to show those guys!" It took me about six months before I realized what he was doing.
LK
Can't expect MBAs to understand the difference between good code and bad code, to them it's all just code, and as far as their concerned, the more the better.
Sometimes you can get lucky and get a department head who worked his or her way up from your position. They tend to be a bit more understanding than some empty suit who never coded an app. Although this isn't always enough, sometimes even an understanding Department Head needs to get approval from someone higher up than themselves to greenlight a major project and in that case everything falls apart again.
On the grand scheme of things that makes sense. If it were up to the programmers themselves, deadlines would usually be much longer because we are often perfectionists. We'd rather take a bit longer and release a product as near perfect as possible. Sometimes "good enough" is, in fact good enough.
LK