Offended? No. He was trolling. You happened to be just the kind of brain-washed idiot who picks up on that and eats it like it's cocaine-laced Frosted Flakes. It was about as offensive to me as if a 13 year old told me their parents are just a sheep because they don't want to accept vampirism as their career choice -- nothing but the derisions of idiocy that were hardly directed at me, but I could still identify as stupidity. Idiots who think this sort of spineless persecution toward something that you don't like should be lauded as an intellectual success have already rotted a nest out for yourselves. Digg. So go play with the rest of your kind.
The ignorance he showed toward a thousand year history of astronomy and physics? That's what I found a bit more offensive.
I think the pictures were a little blurry. The guys at IBM probably didn't read the directions on the camera that says "Stand about 2-3 feet away from subject, then point, and shoot!"
Time to scrap my plans for a Venezuela-only release of my new video game "Assassinating Hugo Chavez" and its prequel "Photographing Hugo Chavez While He Has Sex with Farm Animals"
First off, it's an editorial summary, those are simply part of slashdot. If you want non-editorial summaries, try somewhere else. Second, change for the worse should be criticized. That's the most important criticism a person can offer.
One puts your body in emergency stress mode under a diet-induced starvation shock, leaving your body starving with immense cravings for carbs, and the other is living as an omnivore, like our physical bodies are built to do. I'll go with taking a moderate amount of carbohydrates, because I'm not psychotically suicidal when it comes to health advice.
How insightful. Tell me, were you so overcome with your own smugness and cleverness that you immediately had to perform autofellatio in order to bring the event of your posting to an appropriate climax?
Posting "[citation needed]" instead of refuting the claim with a counter claim or evidence of your own is not insightful, it's detrimental to dialogue. A 4th grader can google up to see what could have produced a parent post's assumption.
It's amazing. You've announced to us you don't believe something someone said without showing any substansive evidence that you know anything about what they said or have anything to the contrary to add to an argument. Are you always so informative about your ignorance, arrogance and laziness? I bet you have a twitter page that tells people what movie you just rented and what you're eating right now, don't you? Apparently, you think that announcing non-news about yourself, to strangers, is what the world is awaiting from you. I don't know about you, but when the most praised and expected product of my mind and efforts amounts to an admittance that's translatable to "I don't know how to use f*cking google" that would turn me into a bit of a nihilist.
You are confusing carbohydrates with carbon-based.
No, you're confusing yourself with someone who has the ability to read. Consult your biologist today to find out what happens to any carbon-based organism when it has no saccharides. Luckily for the kool-aid-drinking fad-diet jumpers like you, the human body ends up making its own carbohydrates if you're not eating enough -- but it's taxing on your system. Consult your physician.
Wow, you obviously read that article with an enormous anti-carb agenda. As a carbon-based life form, your body craves carbohydrates to stay healthy and alive. They simply should not be the only type of energy you consume. Low carb diets are designed to trick the body into a starvation shock. Is the food pyramid carb-heavy? Yes, as the article says and dieticians agree. Should you eliminate carbs from your diet? If you like dying young, then go ahead.
So looking at extreme scenarios and admitting that a model has some unknowns is equal to "doctoring his data"?
Yes. If he was a physician, he'd be prescribing neural surgery for every headache in case it was the symptom of an aneurysm. Earache? Brain cancer. Sore knee? Congenital syphilis. Cough? Either anthrax or Goodpasture syndrome.
There is an addage that when you stand under a bridge and hear hoofprints overhead, it =could= be a zebra, but 99.999999% of the time, it will just be a horse. When you go out of your way to emphasize the possibility that what you're hearing overhead might be could be probably is a zebra, then you are leaving out the statistics of probability in favor of extremism that will support your checkbook. Yes, that negligence is considered "Doctoring the data"
Come the fuck on. You cannot honestly believe that the US government, which depends on tax revenue from American businesses and their employees, would intentionally handicap said businesses?
That remark probably caused PT Barnum to rise from the grave and weep. Can you possibly have a looser grasp on the composition of the US government? Al Gore, the very prophet of climate worship, would sell your grandmother to a Chinese prostitution ring for half a bar of chocolate. If you think that more than 10% of those men put the interests of their constituents, their country, or the truth before the smallest of their own interests, then you need to check yourself into a mental hospital.
I mean, unless you're in apalachia, or the projects...most everyone I see has pretty healthy teeth in the US wherever I've lived
Check out Europe, where the only place you can order dentail floss is where this guy shops; or Asia where being a snaggletooth is no excuse to not be a supermodel.
Charles Darwin would have something to say on the matter, I"m sure.
I doubt it. Considering that being a skanky ho increases the chances for this girl to pass on her genes more than for you, a security-minded individual who knows how to protect his identify... your final sentences seems to be a bit of literary irony -- or you were trying to disprove the common model of evolution.
Santhi Soundarajan is a dangerous case to discuss. If you'll allow me to speak metaphorically: She brought a gun to a knife fight and won. No one knows if the gun was firing, but there were bullet holes everywhere. Does this mean she deserved her medal for knife fighting? Apologists SAY that it's possible her body wasn't responding to the testosterone in it, but considering she won a sporting event (silver medal, at least) where testosterone gives her an enormous edge over the competition. The outcome was tragic, but it's neccessary if they want to allow proper competition in women's sports. A woman would not be able to compete unless she was born with genetic defects, if it were otherwise. You cannot please everyone on this point.
But their argument of it being "Anti-piracy" is contradictive, in this sense. Their exact words are:
Pirated servers splinter the community instead of consolidating all players who love to play the game. Battle.net will bring players together in skirmishes, ladder play, custom games, and allow everyone the opportunity to share a common experience.
Which is ridiculous, because BNet doesn't prevent pirated servers. It supposedly prevents pirated games. See the logical fallacy in their argument? Want to take the red pill yet?
The first of the new species has been given the scientific name Swima bombiviridis.
Subsequently, the entire scientific community got together to call the researchers and tell them they're not allowed to name any new species, ever. This was not the first time such had happened. Ever since the 2007 Sunken-Eyed Lemur was given the scientific name masturbatus furious the scientific community has been tightening the leash on allowing researchers to label their discoveries.
Every argument he makes against piracy is community-centric -- perhaps community is not the cover, but piracy is. Blizzard is not your standard company that's been hamstrung by pirates. They're an overbloated behemoth who's fed himself fat on the communal attractiveness that led to the runaway success of WoW. They're saying "Starcraft 2" and their telling their investors and Vivendi and pocketbooks "World of Warcraft 2". They're not stupid -- to that point. They've properly identified the goose that's laid them billions of dollars in golden eggs, and Starcraft 1 wasn't that goose, WoW was. From a gamer's standpoint, "Turning Diablo and Starcraft into WoW" could be viewed as franchise murder. From an investor's/corporate standpoint, the words sound like they've got 2 billion-dollar products lined up! How do you get this point across to gamers? You DON'T! You say "Piracy! Arggh! Stop those pirates!" when Blizzard knows fully well that fighting piracy doesn't make money -- but as soon as marketing says it, the reason is never questioned, only complained about.
They are not saying the BNet thing is to combat piracy. They're saying that they want to create a similar community in Starcraft 2 that they had in WoW. In other words, they want to make Starcraft 2 a polished chatroom with guns. If the troglodytes keep to themselves in packs of 6-12 with their "LAN Parties" and "After-hours office network games" and their "Internet Cafe Contests" then they are removing themselves from this community. You're thinking small, obviously, when Blizzard is thinking 'If we make an apple big enough, it will begin to taste like an orange.'
Would you rather error on the side of cultural sensitivity?
Cultural sensitivity doesn't seem to be the issue, rather than avoiding the law. PK'ing Taurens could be considered offensive to the 14% of the Hindus in the world, but it's all I did when I played the game.
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most techies in that age group have gotten to where they glaze over the fully capitalized text
Just CAPSLOCK the stuff that doesn't matter and leave what needs to be read in proper format.
- Microsoft Bug Fix Team
Offended? No. He was trolling. You happened to be just the kind of brain-washed idiot who picks up on that and eats it like it's cocaine-laced Frosted Flakes. It was about as offensive to me as if a 13 year old told me their parents are just a sheep because they don't want to accept vampirism as their career choice -- nothing but the derisions of idiocy that were hardly directed at me, but I could still identify as stupidity. Idiots who think this sort of spineless persecution toward something that you don't like should be lauded as an intellectual success have already rotted a nest out for yourselves. Digg. So go play with the rest of your kind.
The ignorance he showed toward a thousand year history of astronomy and physics? That's what I found a bit more offensive.
I think the pictures were a little blurry. The guys at IBM probably didn't read the directions on the camera that says "Stand about 2-3 feet away from subject, then point, and shoot!"
Keep this sort of drivel on Digg.
Time to scrap my plans for a Venezuela-only release of my new video game "Assassinating Hugo Chavez" and its prequel "Photographing Hugo Chavez While He Has Sex with Farm Animals"
First off, it's an editorial summary, those are simply part of slashdot. If you want non-editorial summaries, try somewhere else. Second, change for the worse should be criticized. That's the most important criticism a person can offer.
Yeah stupid regulations like OSHA, pesky workman's compensation and disability
You must work in construction. Strawman construction.
One puts your body in emergency stress mode under a diet-induced starvation shock, leaving your body starving with immense cravings for carbs, and the other is living as an omnivore, like our physical bodies are built to do. I'll go with taking a moderate amount of carbohydrates, because I'm not psychotically suicidal when it comes to health advice.
[citation needed]
How insightful. Tell me, were you so overcome with your own smugness and cleverness that you immediately had to perform autofellatio in order to bring the event of your posting to an appropriate climax?
Posting "[citation needed]" instead of refuting the claim with a counter claim or evidence of your own is not insightful, it's detrimental to dialogue. A 4th grader can google up to see what could have produced a parent post's assumption.
It's amazing. You've announced to us you don't believe something someone said without showing any substansive evidence that you know anything about what they said or have anything to the contrary to add to an argument. Are you always so informative about your ignorance, arrogance and laziness? I bet you have a twitter page that tells people what movie you just rented and what you're eating right now, don't you? Apparently, you think that announcing non-news about yourself, to strangers, is what the world is awaiting from you. I don't know about you, but when the most praised and expected product of my mind and efforts amounts to an admittance that's translatable to "I don't know how to use f*cking google" that would turn me into a bit of a nihilist.
You are confusing carbohydrates with carbon-based.
No, you're confusing yourself with someone who has the ability to read. Consult your biologist today to find out what happens to any carbon-based organism when it has no saccharides. Luckily for the kool-aid-drinking fad-diet jumpers like you, the human body ends up making its own carbohydrates if you're not eating enough -- but it's taxing on your system. Consult your physician.
Wow, you obviously read that article with an enormous anti-carb agenda. As a carbon-based life form, your body craves carbohydrates to stay healthy and alive. They simply should not be the only type of energy you consume. Low carb diets are designed to trick the body into a starvation shock. Is the food pyramid carb-heavy? Yes, as the article says and dieticians agree. Should you eliminate carbs from your diet? If you like dying young, then go ahead.
So looking at extreme scenarios and admitting that a model has some unknowns is equal to "doctoring his data"?
Yes. If he was a physician, he'd be prescribing neural surgery for every headache in case it was the symptom of an aneurysm. Earache? Brain cancer. Sore knee? Congenital syphilis. Cough? Either anthrax or Goodpasture syndrome.
There is an addage that when you stand under a bridge and hear hoofprints overhead, it =could= be a zebra, but 99.999999% of the time, it will just be a horse. When you go out of your way to emphasize the possibility that what you're hearing overhead might be could be probably is a zebra, then you are leaving out the statistics of probability in favor of extremism that will support your checkbook. Yes, that negligence is considered "Doctoring the data"
Come the fuck on. You cannot honestly believe that the US government, which depends on tax revenue from American businesses and their employees, would intentionally handicap said businesses?
That remark probably caused PT Barnum to rise from the grave and weep. Can you possibly have a looser grasp on the composition of the US government? Al Gore, the very prophet of climate worship, would sell your grandmother to a Chinese prostitution ring for half a bar of chocolate. If you think that more than 10% of those men put the interests of their constituents, their country, or the truth before the smallest of their own interests, then you need to check yourself into a mental hospital.
We can give two million dollars to predict space weather, but we can't afford to keep the air conditioning on in Squires Student Center.
And it's all thanks to that no-good Animal House. :-\
They're prudes, but they're about as pro-consumer/anti-business as an agency can get.
I mean, unless you're in apalachia, or the projects...most everyone I see has pretty healthy teeth in the US wherever I've lived
Check out Europe, where the only place you can order dentail floss is where this guy shops; or Asia where being a snaggletooth is no excuse to not be a supermodel.
Charles Darwin would have something to say on the matter, I"m sure.
I doubt it. Considering that being a skanky ho increases the chances for this girl to pass on her genes more than for you, a security-minded individual who knows how to protect his identify... your final sentences seems to be a bit of literary irony -- or you were trying to disprove the common model of evolution.
Santhi Soundarajan is a dangerous case to discuss. If you'll allow me to speak metaphorically: She brought a gun to a knife fight and won. No one knows if the gun was firing, but there were bullet holes everywhere. Does this mean she deserved her medal for knife fighting? Apologists SAY that it's possible her body wasn't responding to the testosterone in it, but considering she won a sporting event (silver medal, at least) where testosterone gives her an enormous edge over the competition. The outcome was tragic, but it's neccessary if they want to allow proper competition in women's sports. A woman would not be able to compete unless she was born with genetic defects, if it were otherwise. You cannot please everyone on this point.
Pirated servers splinter the community instead of consolidating all players who love to play the game. Battle.net will bring players together in skirmishes, ladder play, custom games, and allow everyone the opportunity to share a common experience.
Which is ridiculous, because BNet doesn't prevent pirated servers. It supposedly prevents pirated games. See the logical fallacy in their argument? Want to take the red pill yet?
The first of the new species has been given the scientific name Swima bombiviridis.
Subsequently, the entire scientific community got together to call the researchers and tell them they're not allowed to name any new species, ever. This was not the first time such had happened. Ever since the 2007 Sunken-Eyed Lemur was given the scientific name masturbatus furious the scientific community has been tightening the leash on allowing researchers to label their discoveries.
Every argument he makes against piracy is community-centric -- perhaps community is not the cover, but piracy is. Blizzard is not your standard company that's been hamstrung by pirates. They're an overbloated behemoth who's fed himself fat on the communal attractiveness that led to the runaway success of WoW. They're saying "Starcraft 2" and their telling their investors and Vivendi and pocketbooks "World of Warcraft 2". They're not stupid -- to that point. They've properly identified the goose that's laid them billions of dollars in golden eggs, and Starcraft 1 wasn't that goose, WoW was. From a gamer's standpoint, "Turning Diablo and Starcraft into WoW" could be viewed as franchise murder. From an investor's/corporate standpoint, the words sound like they've got 2 billion-dollar products lined up! How do you get this point across to gamers? You DON'T! You say "Piracy! Arggh! Stop those pirates!" when Blizzard knows fully well that fighting piracy doesn't make money -- but as soon as marketing says it, the reason is never questioned, only complained about.
They are not saying the BNet thing is to combat piracy. They're saying that they want to create a similar community in Starcraft 2 that they had in WoW. In other words, they want to make Starcraft 2 a polished chatroom with guns. If the troglodytes keep to themselves in packs of 6-12 with their "LAN Parties" and "After-hours office network games" and their "Internet Cafe Contests" then they are removing themselves from this community. You're thinking small, obviously, when Blizzard is thinking 'If we make an apple big enough, it will begin to taste like an orange.'
In other words, what kind of answer are you after?
They're cutting the entire staff's wages to minimum, and then they're donating all profits from WoW to orphans.
to the 14% of the Hindus in the world
For those of you who don't speak "Stupid", that was supposed to refer to "The 14% of the world that practice Hinduism" not "14% of Hindus"
Would you rather error on the side of cultural sensitivity?
Cultural sensitivity doesn't seem to be the issue, rather than avoiding the law. PK'ing Taurens could be considered offensive to the 14% of the Hindus in the world, but it's all I did when I played the game.