A joke actually that's supposed to poke fun at people like yourself who always seem to pop up in these threads claiming to work for [fill-in-the-blank].
A pox on this you-can't-post-right-after-you've-posted thing.
According to the http://www.liftport.com/faq.php#science2b FAQ the cable will break if it gets struck by lightening or hit by a Category 5 hurricane. Basically their argument seems to be that this won't be a problem because they'll build it where there isn't any lightening or hurricanes. That sounds kind of risky to me considering the massive amount of money involved. I mean huricanes I can see but isn't there lightening everwhere?
No YOU get out of OUR head, it's crowded enough already in here. Don't make us get violent. Because that would be painful. And I know how we love pain. And assembly. And naked chicks with large breasts. And star trek. And periods.
its teh hardcore mad l33t. d00d. goddamn that doesn't even make sense.
On a more serious note, it's also a great way to get laid. Duh.
"Take me now you l33t stud"
How are you supposed to pronounce the numbers anyway? I generally just throw them in the middle of words like "duh zero zero duh I we - sixteen - nt to the st - zero - rrr today" but my friends just give me strange looks.
My friends look at me funny no matter what I do anyway. It pisses me the fuck off. They just kind of sit there on my couch and stare at me kinda kreepy like for weeks at a time, untill the nieghbors start to complain about the smell. That's when I know its time to make soup. Mmm soup. Soup. Lots of soup. Soup.
Soup is almoast as much fun as sex, but it tastes better.
You can even take that quote and tell it to all [i]your[/i] friends and pretend you made it up yourself and have them laugh and laugh and laugh and think o what a clever guy he is, and I won't care, I'll just smile at you magnaminously and think attaboy sport i love you, almost as much as i love soup, but not quite as much as that because I don't love anything as much as i love soup except maybe sex which still isn't quite as good as soup, but is better than you. I'm a nice funny generous caring guy like that. You should get to know me. Come over some time and we'll have sex and make some soup. Itll be a great time. O yeah
The bottom line is I didn't have any friends or sex or soup untill I learned assembly and now I have all three. If thats not enough of a reason to learn than I don't know what is. --- Will get naked for karma.
What about some kind of seti@home like distributed filtering system on campus? There'd be privacy/security issues I guess, but with masking the recpients address, a whitelist system to bypass the filter, encryption, a well designed client,etc intercepting other people's mail might become hard enough to deter all but the most determined which would be fine by me if my inbox was clean -- let's face it email isn't really all that private to begin with.
How sad that most people just don't really seem to care.:(
I've never quite understood the/. community's obsession with proseltyzing the "poor-blind-windows-using-unbelievers".
Why not just be happy that linux/open source/etc grooves well with you? It's just computer software man. They'res no "enemy" or "evil empire" or "Truth" with a capital T. People who use the "wrong" software aren't damned to eternal hellfire by the Computer Gods when they die. Chill out and enjoy your linux/mozilla/whatever. Stop worrying about everyone else -- we'll be ok. Really.
In the end blind, overly aggressive "evangilism" and "us vs them" mentalities do far more harm then good anyway. No one wants to be preached at or have software crammed down their throat -- all that leads to is frustration and hostility. People want to use software that caters to _their_ needs on _their_ terms, not your's or anyone elses'. (If you think about it that's probably why you ended up using mozilla instead of IE in the first place).
That's not to say I don't think it would be nice if more people were under the open-source umbrella, just that I see nothing "evil" or wrong with the people who aren't and that I don't understand the need for this rabid convert-the-heathens mentality.
Damnit looks like this post has turned into a long, rambling semi-coherent rant. God bless alcohol. Sorry all.
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A joke actually that's supposed to poke fun at people like yourself who always seem to pop up in these threads claiming to work for [fill-in-the-blank].
A pox on this you-can't-post-right-after-you've-posted thing.
sure you do. My post was a joke. Evidently no one here reads fark (http://fark.com/).
I work for Blackboard.
/.ers belive anything they hear.
So I am really getting a kick out of most of these replies.
Some of you guys are very good at making it sound like you know what you are talking about.
But trust me.... You don't.
I think you just want to make yourself sound smart, when in reality you dont know what you are talking about.
This is how bad info gets passed around.
If you dont know about the topic....Dont make yourself sound like you do.
Cuz some
According to the http://www.liftport.com/faq.php#science2b FAQ the cable will break if it gets struck by lightening or hit by a Category 5 hurricane. Basically their argument seems to be that this won't be a problem because they'll build it where there isn't any lightening or hurricanes. That sounds kind of risky to me considering the massive amount of money involved. I mean huricanes I can see but isn't there lightening everwhere?
No YOU get out of OUR head, it's crowded enough already in here. Don't make us get violent. Because that would be painful. And I know how we love pain. And assembly. And naked chicks with large breasts. And star trek. And periods.
its teh hardcore mad l33t. d00d.
goddamn that doesn't even make sense.
On a more serious note, it's also a great way to get laid. Duh.
"Take me now you l33t stud"
How are you supposed to pronounce the numbers anyway? I generally just throw them in the middle of words like "duh zero zero duh I we - sixteen - nt to the st - zero - rrr today" but my friends just give me strange looks.
My friends look at me funny no matter what I do anyway. It pisses me the fuck off. They just kind of sit there on my couch and stare at me kinda kreepy like for weeks at a time, untill the nieghbors start to complain about the smell. That's when I know its time to make soup. Mmm soup. Soup. Lots of soup. Soup.
Soup is almoast as much fun as sex, but it tastes better.
You can even take that quote and tell it to all [i]your[/i] friends and pretend you made it up yourself and have them laugh and laugh and laugh and think o what a clever guy he is, and I won't care, I'll just smile at you magnaminously and think attaboy sport i love you, almost as much as i love soup, but not quite as much as that because I don't love anything as much as i love soup except maybe sex which still isn't quite as good as soup, but is better than you. I'm a nice funny generous caring guy like that. You should get to know me. Come over some time and we'll have sex and make some soup. Itll be a great time. O yeah
The bottom line is I didn't have any friends or sex or soup untill I learned assembly and now I have all three. If thats not enough of a reason to learn than I don't know what is.
---
Will get naked for karma.
What about some kind of seti@home like distributed filtering system on campus? There'd be privacy/security issues I guess, but with masking the recpients address, a whitelist system to bypass the filter, encryption, a well designed client,etc intercepting other people's mail might become hard enough to deter all but the most determined which would be fine by me if my inbox was clean -- let's face it email isn't really all that private to begin with.
stupid_american posted this exact same thing a little up the page.
I've never quite understood the
Why not just be happy that linux/open source/etc grooves well with you? It's just computer software man. They'res no "enemy" or "evil empire" or "Truth" with a capital T. People who use the "wrong" software aren't damned to eternal hellfire by the Computer Gods when they die. Chill out and enjoy your linux/mozilla/whatever. Stop worrying about everyone else -- we'll be ok. Really.
In the end blind, overly aggressive "evangilism" and "us vs them" mentalities do far more harm then good anyway. No one wants to be preached at or have software crammed down their throat -- all that leads to is frustration and hostility. People want to use software that caters to _their_ needs on _their_ terms, not your's or anyone elses'. (If you think about it that's probably why you ended up using mozilla instead of IE in the first place).
That's not to say I don't think it would be nice if more people were under the open-source umbrella, just that I see nothing "evil" or wrong with the people who aren't and that I don't understand the need for this rabid convert-the-heathens mentality.
Damnit looks like this post has turned into a long, rambling semi-coherent rant. God bless alcohol. Sorry all.