dude, your post gave me a really nasty flashback to my ex-father's typing style. where EVERYTHING HAD TO BE CAPITALIZED and followed by MULTIPLE ellipses AND exclamation marks.......!!!!! with INEXPLICABLY irregular spacing!?!?!!
i agree with everything you said except the part about "these days" - there's nothing about "these days" that makes succeeding from a crappy starting point any harder than it used to be any other days, IMHO.
you've got some nerve, calling Billie a horse. i get it that trash-talking about MS and apple, and their respective Gods - gates and jobs - is a normal thing, but come on, there are limits to trash-talking too, man... let's stay civilized here, people!
ok, i misunderstood your post. although i wasn't arguing for socialism, i was just pointing out that socialism != having an internationally respected country with a good healthcare system and public education, that's all.
i like the way you think:
not resorting to violence => inability to do so => weakness
i suppose this is a logical conclusion from the following way of thinking:
strength => ability to blow to smithereens anyone, anywhere => desire to do so incessantly
In socialist America, children go to school and learn something useful, everyone has healthcare, the entire planet doesn't see the US as a meddling bully that resorts to violence to solve all of its problems, and technology is seen as an opportunity rather than a nuisance. Oh, the horror!
heh. when I was a kid, our father made us learn Haskell after 18 hours of working at the factory, while high on heroin, and riding a tricycle, ON STONE TABLETS!
i never quite understood how fees can be hidden... do they sneak into your apartment and take the CA$H hidden by the XYZ fairy under your pillow, or something?
true. personally, i'd gladly welcome targeted advertising under the following conditions:
1) complete transparency of the way personal data is used that is subjected to scrutiny to make sure advertisers are adhering to their privacy policies (and, of course, some limits on what those policies can allow them to do)
2) targeted advertisements that actually do a good job, for god's sake! i'll tell them anything they want - age, sex, occupation, movies i've seen over past 2 months, even the number of times i've ever shaved my private parts, if that's what it takes. but i want ads which really are interesting to me, 'cause IMO even gmail's ads usually suck badly at this. (in fact, i'd give anything just so i never have to sit through an overly-detailed ad about prostate cancer or tampons or menopause).
the only difference is, the people collecting the data are the freaking security experts you decided to trust with your data's integrity and privacy. it's not that similar to uploading personal data to facebook, or using google docs to store your banking info. of course, security experts aren't infallible, but i'd readily trust them with ALL my data if they convince me that doing so will make their protection substantially better.
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i wasn't comparing the benefits, but the health risks. while we couldn't (or shouldn't) survive without some periodic dose of solar radiation, the link between skin cancer and UV is well known and proven. in that sense, that really hot well-tanned chick who lives in your building and spends as much time as she can on the beach has probably endangered her health much more than i ever could by smoking near the entrance to said building.
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pardon my french, but catching a whiff of cigarette smoke from someone up or downwind from you is probably much less detrimental to your health than, say, taking a 20 minute walk on a sunny day (due to solar radiation, bla, bla). my point being, unless it's a crowded area where people are sitting and not walking (like outdoor chairs at a restaurant), IMO smoking outdoors is pretty much all a smoker should be expected/required to do, as far as not endangering other peoples' health goes.
yeah, but it doesn't mean it can't satisfy our perpetual hunger for coolness and excitement from things that have nothing to do whatsoever with our own lives, at least in the foreseeable future. just like news on quantum computers, or some new concept for a space elevator, or some new metamaterial that maybe possibly will allow moore's law to continue holding in a distant, hypothetical future.
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no worriez. Lenin teaches forgiveness! (unless you're the royal family)
don't want to be a bum anymore? there's an app for that.
now hand over the $200 + god knows how much a month for the mandatory at&t plan.
(and you people complain about high taxes...)
dude, your post gave me a really nasty flashback to my ex-father's typing style. where EVERYTHING HAD TO BE CAPITALIZED and followed by MULTIPLE ellipses AND exclamation marks.... ...!!!!! with INEXPLICABLY irregular spacing!?!?!!
i agree with everything you said except the part about "these days" - there's nothing about "these days" that makes succeeding from a crappy starting point any harder than it used to be any other days, IMHO.
you've got some nerve, calling Billie a horse. i get it that trash-talking about MS and apple, and their respective Gods - gates and jobs - is a normal thing, but come on, there are limits to trash-talking too, man... let's stay civilized here, people!
ok, i misunderstood your post. although i wasn't arguing for socialism, i was just pointing out that socialism != having an internationally respected country with a good healthcare system and public education, that's all.
i like the way you think:
not resorting to violence => inability to do so => weakness
i suppose this is a logical conclusion from the following way of thinking:
strength => ability to blow to smithereens anyone, anywhere => desire to do so incessantly
you're welcome.
send the check to 1 Lenin rd., Stalingrad, RU 82317.
In socialist America, children go to school and learn something useful, everyone has healthcare, the entire planet doesn't see the US as a meddling bully that resorts to violence to solve all of its problems, and technology is seen as an opportunity rather than a nuisance. Oh, the horror!
jokes aside, you actually have a good point. two spheroids, while obscene, could be more comfortable to use.
heh. when I was a kid, our father made us learn Haskell after 18 hours of working at the factory, while high on heroin, and riding a tricycle, ON STONE TABLETS!
i never quite understood how fees can be hidden... do they sneak into your apartment and take the CA$H hidden by the XYZ fairy under your pillow, or something?
algae rock.
also, #ifndef OVERLORD_STR #define OVERLORD_STR algae
i, for one, welcome our new OVERLORD_STR overlords
#endif
who's trat?
[in panicked tone]: who's trere?! HELLO??
true. personally, i'd gladly welcome targeted advertising under the following conditions:
1) complete transparency of the way personal data is used that is subjected to scrutiny to make sure advertisers are adhering to their privacy policies (and, of course, some limits on what those policies can allow them to do)
2) targeted advertisements that actually do a good job, for god's sake! i'll tell them anything they want - age, sex, occupation, movies i've seen over past 2 months, even the number of times i've ever shaved my private parts, if that's what it takes. but i want ads which really are interesting to me, 'cause IMO even gmail's ads usually suck badly at this. (in fact, i'd give anything just so i never have to sit through an overly-detailed ad about prostate cancer or tampons or menopause).
the only difference is, the people collecting the data are the freaking security experts you decided to trust with your data's integrity and privacy. it's not that similar to uploading personal data to facebook, or using google docs to store your banking info. of course, security experts aren't infallible, but i'd readily trust them with ALL my data if they convince me that doing so will make their protection substantially better.
i wasn't comparing the benefits, but the health risks. while we couldn't (or shouldn't) survive without some periodic dose of solar radiation, the link between skin cancer and UV is well known and proven. in that sense, that really hot well-tanned chick who lives in your building and spends as much time as she can on the beach has probably endangered her health much more than i ever could by smoking near the entrance to said building.
how about "don't be evil?"
pardon my french, but catching a whiff of cigarette smoke from someone up or downwind from you is probably much less detrimental to your health than, say, taking a 20 minute walk on a sunny day (due to solar radiation, bla, bla). my point being, unless it's a crowded area where people are sitting and not walking (like outdoor chairs at a restaurant), IMO smoking outdoors is pretty much all a smoker should be expected/required to do, as far as not endangering other peoples' health goes.
cheaper, though...
I can't believe this got modded troll, it's obviously a joke...
... is making waves.
I'll let myself out.
sorry, wrong on all accounts... well, i've been known to write a script or two, i suppose, but they weren't for actors, they were for bash.
yeah, but it doesn't mean it can't satisfy our perpetual hunger for coolness and excitement from things that have nothing to do whatsoever with our own lives, at least in the foreseeable future. just like news on quantum computers, or some new concept for a space elevator, or some new metamaterial that maybe possibly will allow moore's law to continue holding in a distant, hypothetical future.
i'm just sayin'...
I suppose when exactly that happens depends on your karma... get it? like, not in this life? funny, right?!