"Fuck" is the most versatile word in the English language. It can be used in every part of speech (except as a preposition, though it can be part of a prepositional phrase). The sentence, "Fuck those fucking fuckers," for example, packs a lot of meaning in what is really only two words.
"Slashdot those slashdotting slashdotters"
Hmmm,/. must be the second most versatile word in the English language.
... more uneducated people. Because this country is just too damn smart. We need to dumb it down a little...
High School Graduate A goes to trade school, takes a six month trade course in welding, then is immediately employed in a $60/k year blue-collar job.
High School Graduate B goes off to college, spends four years getting a BA in Philosophy, graduates with $75k in student loans to pay off. Unable to find a job, Graduate B applies to grad school.
Long trips are one of the best times to have an auto (along with cruise control). Probably beaten out only by city driving and commuting.
Let me correct a misconception: you don't need to have an automatic transmission in order to use cruise control. My 5 speed manual has cruise control. The manual transmission is perfect for quickly accelerating onto a US Interstate highway. Once I reach my cruising speed, I simply click on the cruise control.
That said, automatic transmissions are a godsend for typical city driving in the US. Since we don't have roundabouts, most city driving is stop and go.
Come on people - federal security! Why the hell are they running MS OSes anyway?
I'm a career US federal government employee.
Right after the then-Governor of Texas became President, my employer (a federal agency) "standardized" on computers from a vendor headquartered in Round Rock, Texas. We were no longer allowed to purchase computers from any other company. This decision was made by a political appointee, appointed by the President.
Right after the same Administration settled the MS anti-trust suit, our agency "standardized" on MS-Software -- Windows is the only operating session we were allowed to run, our email was moved over to Exchange, our websites were moved to MS-platforms, we were forced to move to only MS applications (Word, Powerpoint, Excel), etc. While this sounds bad, it actually used to be worse - for a while, we could only buy PDAs that ran Windows/CE.
Although the political appointees who made these choices left in early January 2009, my agency continues to lock more and more of our data into proprietary MS formats - we are now moving as much of our internal data as possible into Sharepoint.
The current administration seems to be big fans of "the cloud". From where I sit, this means that instead of just overpaying for crappy software and crappy hardware, we are going to start overpaying for crappy network services and the bandwidth to support those services.
Slashdot Mirror
I live near Chicago, am not fat,
Haven't tried the pizza have you?
It's probably not going to be a good day, since slashdot has already posted 13 kdawson stories in a row.
No, change it to Sheet My Dad Says.
They'd probably find that more offensive, since sheets are what heathens have sex between.
Ban the use of Google at work.
"We already do!" - Steve Balmer
Does anyone else think it is odd that the fastest plane in the world is still the SR-71, which came into service in 1964.
That's the fastest plane that those of us without security clearances knows about.
Guess the Journal forgot Rupert also owns MySpace.
Oh noes, the WSJ is Zucked!
"Fuck" is the most versatile word in the English language. It can be used in every part of speech (except as a preposition, though it can be part of a prepositional phrase). The sentence, "Fuck those fucking fuckers," for example, packs a lot of meaning in what is really only two words.
"Slashdot those slashdotting slashdotters" Hmmm, /. must be the second most versatile word in the English language.
Texas buys the most textbooks, and thus has undue influence on the industry.
That's because Chuck Norris can judge a textbook by its cover.
Having hand cranks wouldn't serve much (if any) purpose on a modern car,
How about to open the (glass) windows?
... more uneducated people. Because this country is just too damn smart. We need to dumb it down a little...
High School Graduate A goes to trade school, takes a six month trade course in welding, then is immediately employed in a $60/k year blue-collar job.
High School Graduate B goes off to college, spends four years getting a BA in Philosophy, graduates with $75k in student loans to pay off. Unable to find a job, Graduate B applies to grad school.
Which one is smarter?
Even Slashdot has embarrassed me at work.
That's not as embarrassing as outing yourself as the slashdotter who sees advertisements.
I have never seen any party be this good at it. It's working out well for them. The constant repetition of bald face lies is shaping public opinion.
Which party are you referring to?
They took a box of business cards, too (first item in the inventory). I'm still trying to figure that one out.
My bet is that his business cards did not say "journalist".
May be... still uses a fuckton of bleach and other processing chemicals to get that nice shiny white color.
Domtar would like to paper over that fact.
No app for that? Guess we need to wait for the iPorn? Or is that iPad?
iSpank
Long trips are one of the best times to have an auto (along with cruise control). Probably beaten out only by city driving and commuting.
Let me correct a misconception: you don't need to have an automatic transmission in order to use cruise control. My 5 speed manual has cruise control. The manual transmission is perfect for quickly accelerating onto a US Interstate highway. Once I reach my cruising speed, I simply click on the cruise control.
That said, automatic transmissions are a godsend for typical city driving in the US. Since we don't have roundabouts, most city driving is stop and go.
Oh my my. You have never driven a manual car I see.
Aside from the better fuel economy, the car is much nicer to drive.
It's a also a great theft deterrent - most car thieves in the US don't know how to drive stick.
Consulting: When you're not part of the solution, there is good money in prolonging the problem.
Come on people - federal security! Why the hell are they running MS OSes anyway?
I'm a career US federal government employee.
Right after the then-Governor of Texas became President, my employer (a federal agency) "standardized" on computers from a vendor headquartered in Round Rock, Texas. We were no longer allowed to purchase computers from any other company. This decision was made by a political appointee, appointed by the President.
Right after the same Administration settled the MS anti-trust suit, our agency "standardized" on MS-Software -- Windows is the only operating session we were allowed to run, our email was moved over to Exchange, our websites were moved to MS-platforms, we were forced to move to only MS applications (Word, Powerpoint, Excel), etc. While this sounds bad, it actually used to be worse - for a while, we could only buy PDAs that ran Windows/CE.
Although the political appointees who made these choices left in early January 2009, my agency continues to lock more and more of our data into proprietary MS formats - we are now moving as much of our internal data as possible into Sharepoint.
The current administration seems to be big fans of "the cloud". From where I sit, this means that instead of just overpaying for crappy software and crappy hardware, we are going to start overpaying for crappy network services and the bandwidth to support those services.
How can a competent developer not understand operating system concepts?
They're "web developers"
So, against a whole year of savings, they can't accept five or six days of artificial heating?
Haven't been to Wisconsin, have you?
Seriously, this is what I would like to know. What policy decision of Bush was it that sunk the economy?
He took the country into two wars while simultaneously lowering taxes.
There's a reason the US is ranked 67th on the list.
"Greatest healthcare in the free world, if you ignore the 66 other countries above us!"
We can't hear you over the sound of our waving flags.
P.S. Your comment is number 3 on Google if you search for 'Northwest pilots headphones'.
Your comment is now number 1 for the same search -- google needs to fix their algorithm! :-)
Everything has been reported as a hoax at one time or another. Do you have a source?
The "Posted by kdawson" kinda gives it away.