So far, it seems the android phone makers' attitudes are to do only enough to sell the phones
Not all manufacturers are the same though. I had a Sprint/HTC phone which fit that model, eventually they just stopped releasing updates for it. It seemed like it was a pain for them to take a new version of Android, make all of the same changes and add all of the same non-removable apps back in, and release it as an update to the phone. I wouldn't want that job, for example, to keep making the same changes to newer versions of software. My OnePlus phone is different though, it's a first generation model and is still getting regular updates. Since they didn't heavily customize Cyanogenmod for the phone and they didn't install a bunch a pre-loaded apps for their own brand, sending out regular updates would seem like a much easier job. The major version Android updates I've gotten have made it feel like I got a new phone, which is the main reason I haven't bought the later models. But, when I do need a new phone, I'm much more likely to go buy from them again then go back to a phone tied to the carrier with the carrier's own junk loaded on it.
CNN has already shown prime-time town hall events for both Johnson and Stein, they already are giving time to them. It's just not enough. But if 15 or 20% of people end up voting for third parties then during the next election cycle there will hopefully be a lot of people asking questions about why third party candidates are not included in the presidential debates, and those are questions that the Commission on Presidential Debates and the D and R parties do not want to answer. If the major candidates in the next election are anything like the crap we have in this one (and, statistically, one the candidates will be the same), then there are going to be a lot of people wondering why their candidates don't get to debate. It has nothing to do with popularity in the polls, and everything to do with who controls the debates. If you're not sure who controls the debates, look into the Commission on Presidential Debates to see who runs it. I'll give you a hint: their candidates always get to participate, and they always win the election. That's what needs to change, and enough people voting for third parties in this election will help swing the momentum away from the parties.
If other parties have a decent showing then it may force the media to start paying attention to the other parties. A third-party vote is not a non-vote, it is a vote against the 2-party system. The desired outcome is presidential debates which feature more than 2 people, so that people can actually educate themselves about who represents them the best instead of voting based on fear.
A conservative coworker last week went on what seemed to be an paranoid rant about the administration letting Hillary be elected in November and then indicting her and extending Obama's presidency because there was no clear succession of power.
Your conservative co-worker doesn't understand the constitution very well. Orrin Hatch would probably become president if Hillary was president-elect and immediately got impeached (or, the VP-elect, or the house would elect a new president; in no case would a third term be an option). Indicting her does not remove her from the presidency.
And backspace for back is so nice as it allows you to use the same hand as for the mouse.
You know what else allows you to use the same hand as the mouse? Mouse gestures. Hold down the right mouse button, move the mouse left, release the button, and the browser goes back. You can open and close tabs just as quickly, open any link in a new tab, go forward, etc. Chrome needs an extension for them, but some other browsers have them built-in.
Haven't you cave dwellers heard of mouse gestures? New tab, close tab, back, forward, you can do any of those in a fraction of a second without taking your hand off the thing you use to browse the internet anyway (not that thing, the other thing).
That's exactly what I was thinking. They could have made this a checkbox option in the settings page, but instead they removed the feature and then published an add-on to add it back in only 3 months later. All they had to do was add a checkbox and add an if statement into their key handler, that probably would have taken less than 3 months.
How would that work? Does it require someone to read through the fine print of every offer presented in every story and manually tag whether or not that story contains US-only news? When The Guardian reports on a US-only story, it doesn't sound like that process can be reliably automated.
Yes, I believe it. Why would it be so unbelievable, because all of the hardware and software that any organization, including the NSA, runs is so bulletproof? There are bugs in nearly every internet-facing device or application, and sometimes those bugs allow access to people that shouldn't have it.
The real interesting thing about this is that this leak may cause all or most of the affected vendors to patch the bugs that the NSA has been exploiting.
You sound like you know something, what are you doing on Slashdot?
How does this airship stay on the ground? In the videos I've seen it doesn't look like there are any cables, does it have a way of adjusting lift or do they try to make it more or less neutrally bouyant?
Wow, look at that, once I call you out, again, here you come, posting as yourself for the first time in a week. You are easier to manipulate than Pavlov's dog, you know that? You're going to sit there and act like other random people would troll through my comments in other unrelated stories just to post support for you. No one does that on Slashdot man, you're the only one. It's clear to anyone paying attention that you are the only person who ever posts in support of yourself. Your attempts to hide behind AC posts are as transparent as your stupid claims of $100 forum posts and suggestions to programs that were rejected, as if those are things that a professional programmer would be proud of. You're not a professional programmer though, that's why you're proud of them.
I don't need defenders really.
And you don't have any, either. It's just you and your head man, that's all you've got. You're pathetic. You're someone who decided to pick up programming as a hobby or something like that after failing at whatever else you tried before that, and now you're trying to claim all of these gold paper stars as achievements that a normal programmer would be proud of. Your achievements are bullshit, your accomplishments are overstated. You've been shown over and over that you lie, embellish, exaggerate, and use smoke and mirrors to make it seem like you've done more than you have. Over, and over, and over you do this, and then you try to deflect attention away from yourself by accusing other people of exactly what you're guilty of. You call me a blowhard, anonymous, butthurt, that people are laughing at me, etc, it is a classic projection defense. You are projecting everything that you are guilty of onto me, because you don't have any other argument or any other tactic left after your bullshit has been exposed for what it is. It's obvious that you are full of shit because you're more than happy to talk about things that you literally know nothing about as if they're facts, that's what a bullshit artist does (you must be a Trump fan). I'm 6'1", 200lbs, but you're trying to try to make me angry by calling me fat? You're only proving that you're an idiot who will speak about things that they know nothing about as if they're facts. That's why your opinion means nothing, why your accomplishments are bullshit, and why you have no reputation for anything other than lies, deception, and evasion. You can project and accuse others of your faults all you want, but no one here is laughing at me. Not at me, big guy.
You obviously feel defeated, based on how easy it is for me to control your behavior at this point just by calling you out on your bullshit. You have nothing else for me, I have no use for you, your entertainment value is ended. I've already exposed you for the bullshit artist you are, there's no reason to continue with you. Take care, have fun trolling my other unrelated comments trying to lash out. Remember to call me butthurt if it makes you feel better about yourself.
I know for a fact you're APK, and you know that too, and you know I'm right. You can lie all you want (what's the first rule when dealing with spammers?), but both of us know that's true for a fact. You have no supporters here who come to your defense. You want to know how I can prove that also? Because you break out the third-party posts whenever you lose an argument. Once you lose, all of a sudden, you have all these anonymous defenders. They only show up when you've lost and retreated and turn on your defense mechanism. You have no defenders when you're having an argument, there's no one there to back you up, but miraculously at the exact same time when you stop posting as yourself, all of these anonymous defenders swoop to your aid. It's not a coincidence, and if you think anyone is fooled by your bullshit then you're deluding yourself. I understand that delusion is part of your M.O., you've apparently managed to delude yourself by convincing yourself that making some changes to an application 16 years ago, being paid $100 for a forum post 8 years ago, creating an application that sorts text, and submitting a poop icon and other changes that got rejected are things that should go on your resume today. You've convinced yourself that those are all solid credentials for someone claiming to be a superior programmer, so you are clearly delusional, but don't assume that anyone else shares your fantasy.
Go back and look at that thread again. Here you post a comment referring to yourself in the third person. I reply to that, referring directly to you, and then you respond as yourself (wow, that's weird). Yeah, no way that first comment was from you, right? Must have been a third party. Then we go back and forth for a few posts, you throw out your sad list of "accomplishments", I expose them for the bullshit they are, you move on to try to attack my weight and other things that you have no knowledge of, all of that happens in one day, last Wednesday, a week ago. After you lose that battle in an embarrassing fashion and resort to personal attacks, you retreat and the next day you don't post at all, instead here come the "third party" posts. For some reason they were missing all of the previous day, but now that you get your ass handed to you you run away and here come the third parties that you want to claim aren't actually you. And you're still on it too, you still refuse to post as yourself and you still insist on claiming you're someone other than who you are, a week later. I don't really blame you though, if I just got exposed for being a loser I wouldn't want to be that person either, but like I said, just don't assume that anyone else is part of your fantasy world. You suck at hiding your identity, just like you suck at programming. If you want to prove me right, fine, let's break out another list of fantastic achievements of yours. Maybe we can list some issues of Nintendo Power that haven't been in print for 20 years, I bet that will be impressive.
The major difference between you and I is that you have made an attempt to prove your claims of being a superior programmer, but all of your claims have been shown to be bullshit. I haven't made any claims at all, but at least I haven't been shown to be a bullshit artist impostor. Go ahead, post again as a third party and claim it's not you, that totally helps prove that you are not a bullshit artist impostor.
I also find it endlessly amusing that if I use your initials too many times in one post, it hits the Slashdot lameness filter. An entire computer system knows you for what you are, and that's funny.
How I can prove that you know you lost our argument, in one easy step:
You immediately retreated, stopped posting as yourself, and pretended to be one or more other people instead of facing your embarrassment.
Not the actions of anyone who won anything. You know you lost, and you continue to illustrate it with each one of your stupid third party posts. You're proud of getting paid $100 for a forum post and submitting a multi-colored human shit icon which got rejected, those are your achievements. I called you out, you lost, you retreated. You ran away. There's a phrase I'm looking for there, you like to use, something about running away. Whatever, I don't have time for you any more.
OK, APK, I'm going to humor you. I'm going to tell you this one more time. This time, I'll use capital letters and bold, because the other times I've told you this it hasn't sunk in to your goddamn thick skull, and you keep bringing it up over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and the only thing I know how to do to help you understand is to virtually shout it at you. I don't work with retards for a living, so I apologize if there is a more effective way to reach you that I'm just not aware of, but this is my limit and this is all I know.
So, here we go:
IN ORDER TO PROVE MY WORK I CANNOT REMAIN ANONYMOUS. I INTEND TO REMAIN ANONYMOUS, BECAUSE I GIVE A SHIT WAAAAY MORE ABOUT MAINTAINING MY ANONYMITY THAN PROVING ANYTHING TO SOMEONE WHOSE OPINION MEANS NOTHING TO ME. THEREFORE, I WILL NEVER PROVE ANY OF MY WORK TO YOU, AND I DON'T GIVE A SHIT IF YOU BELIEVE ME.
OK APK, if that hasn't sunk in yet then go ahead and read it another 10 times. In fact, print it out and use your paste to glue it to your computer screen, so that every time we have these conversations you can look at the answer that I have previously given instead of looking like a retard when you ask the same question again, OK? See, it's not that I "can't" prove anything to you, just that I am unwilling. I won't. I'm sorry that literally the only thing you have to say in your own defense is that I'm not willing to reveal who I am. It's really shitty for you that the only thing left is for you to point out the fact that I'm going to stay anonymous as if that's some negative on me instead of exactly what I want to happen, but I guess that's what happens when you make yourself out to be some big bad programmer but then don't have anything to show for it other than smoke and mirrors (hey, look, another phrase you can use 30 times over the next 10 comments). I'm sorry that you feel like the only thing you have left is to attack me instead of defend your own sad record.
Sorry big guy, but that's the way it is. Remember to put on your foam helmet if you leave the house.
Seriously man, what the fuck could possibly be wrong with the wiring in your head which causes you to ask the same exact question over and over and over, even though every time you ask it I give you the same answer? What the hell is wrong with you? Do you think it's going to be a different answer? APK, what's the definition of insanity?
No, I definitely "won" that debate, because I clearly exposed all of your bullshit for what it is. How can we tell that I won? Because ever since I exposed your shit you have refused to post as yourself, you are now only posting as some anonymous third-party supporter (I like how all of your "supporters" are always anonymous, by the way). Switching your persona and hiding behind a series of anonymous "third parties" as if they are anyone other than you is not a sign of victory. It means you lost so badly that you are actually embarrassed by it. And, you should be, because it's embarrassing for you. It makes you look like an idiot. But, seriously, keep on linking to that thread. Every time you pop up and try to challenge anyone on here I'll make sure to link to it as well.
Meanwhile, you really need to work on the pattern recognition in that poorly-written AI that you call an intellect. I called you out for using "in computing" all the time, and then you stopped using that, then I said you were like a roach and now you use that 3 times per comment to try and insult me (by the way, personal attacks against someone that you know nothing about are totally a fantastic way to win a debate and illustrate that you have an iron-clad argument). Maybe get an original thought in that 10cc 2-stroke engine that you call a brain. Here, now I'll call you a "shrub". Now you can use that word to insult me 3 times per comment for your next 10 comments, like you do with everything else. You don't have an original thought in your brain and you're going to suggest that you're a better programmer than anyone else.
Hold on, are you incapable of forming new thoughts or memories? Is that why you always parrot everything I say? Is that why I have to call you out to get you to stop using the same phrase over and over, as if you're trying to suggest that all of these different anonymous people use the same phrase that no one else uses in common speaking, and then they all stop using it at the same time? APK, is that why you keep asking me the same question over and over and over? It's because you're incapable of original thought or forming new memories, isn't it? You actually think that you've never asked me that question before, and you have no recollection of every time I've answered it. What happened to make you that way, were you born like that or did you have to suffer some sort of severe head trauma to achieve that state? Is that also why you're alone, does that limit your ability to carry on any kind of functional human relationship? I've seen the movie Memento, are you like that guy? Do you have some post-it note in front of you that says "remember to ask AmicusNYCL why he doesn't give any information about who he is or what he does"? You should throw that note away, you've already asked that question about 100 times and I've answered it about 100 times. You should find a new question. Replace that post-it note with one that says "why am I like this?"
You're an idiot, APK. You have been, you still are, you always will be. Look at you man, you're in your 50s, alone, proud of your worthless "accomplishments", and acting like you're someone else all while trying to argue that you're better at programming than someone you know nothing about. This is the definition of pathetic. Hey, tell us about your NCAA days again, maybe you can be proud of that.
I mean, look at this bullshit:
Everyone laughing at your antics isn't apk. I doubt he's here at all because once he does that to you he can leave knowing he's exposed a nobody like you.
Are you fucking kidding me? Look at yourself. One of us here is definitely a loser, APK. It's not me, though.
I feel bad for you. This is beyond sad. You should move on from this entire argument and go do something that makes yourself happy. It's got to be better than sitting there posting that crap. You can type all you want, but you know that you're sitting there acting like someone else, because no one else is coming to defend you. Turn the computer off, go outside, go to the park, maybe go to a bar or restaurant and find someone to talk to. Seriously, anything has got to be better than this. Maybe you haven't hit rock bottom yet, but I hope you have a clear view about how you're choosing to spend your time.
No, you dumb bitch, that doesn't show me being exposed as anything. What that shows is that you think that suggesting improvements to a piece of software 16 years ago, and getting paid $100 for a forum post 8 years ago, are things that should be on the top of your resume today. What that shows is you hold up gold stars from your teacher and use those to argue that you're a superior programmer. And you do all of this without even knowing anything about my own work. Seriously, what kind of professional argues that they are better at their job than someone that they know nothing about? In short, it shows you for the bullshit artist that you are. Really though, keep posting that link.
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So far, it seems the android phone makers' attitudes are to do only enough to sell the phones
Not all manufacturers are the same though. I had a Sprint/HTC phone which fit that model, eventually they just stopped releasing updates for it. It seemed like it was a pain for them to take a new version of Android, make all of the same changes and add all of the same non-removable apps back in, and release it as an update to the phone. I wouldn't want that job, for example, to keep making the same changes to newer versions of software. My OnePlus phone is different though, it's a first generation model and is still getting regular updates. Since they didn't heavily customize Cyanogenmod for the phone and they didn't install a bunch a pre-loaded apps for their own brand, sending out regular updates would seem like a much easier job. The major version Android updates I've gotten have made it feel like I got a new phone, which is the main reason I haven't bought the later models. But, when I do need a new phone, I'm much more likely to go buy from them again then go back to a phone tied to the carrier with the carrier's own junk loaded on it.
we at least have to see that fat dumpy little fucker spit roasted
Jesus, man. No, we don't. We really don't.
CNN has already shown prime-time town hall events for both Johnson and Stein, they already are giving time to them. It's just not enough. But if 15 or 20% of people end up voting for third parties then during the next election cycle there will hopefully be a lot of people asking questions about why third party candidates are not included in the presidential debates, and those are questions that the Commission on Presidential Debates and the D and R parties do not want to answer. If the major candidates in the next election are anything like the crap we have in this one (and, statistically, one the candidates will be the same), then there are going to be a lot of people wondering why their candidates don't get to debate. It has nothing to do with popularity in the polls, and everything to do with who controls the debates. If you're not sure who controls the debates, look into the Commission on Presidential Debates to see who runs it. I'll give you a hint: their candidates always get to participate, and they always win the election. That's what needs to change, and enough people voting for third parties in this election will help swing the momentum away from the parties.
You either vote for a walking Meme
Speaking of walking memes, the only bright side to a Clinton presidency would be 4 years of Bill Clinton in the spotlight in the age of viral images.
If other parties have a decent showing then it may force the media to start paying attention to the other parties. A third-party vote is not a non-vote, it is a vote against the 2-party system. The desired outcome is presidential debates which feature more than 2 people, so that people can actually educate themselves about who represents them the best instead of voting based on fear.
A conservative coworker last week went on what seemed to be an paranoid rant about the administration letting Hillary be elected in November and then indicting her and extending Obama's presidency because there was no clear succession of power.
Your conservative co-worker doesn't understand the constitution very well. Orrin Hatch would probably become president if Hillary was president-elect and immediately got impeached (or, the VP-elect, or the house would elect a new president; in no case would a third term be an option). Indicting her does not remove her from the presidency.
And backspace for back is so nice as it allows you to use the same hand as for the mouse.
You know what else allows you to use the same hand as the mouse? Mouse gestures. Hold down the right mouse button, move the mouse left, release the button, and the browser goes back. You can open and close tabs just as quickly, open any link in a new tab, go forward, etc. Chrome needs an extension for them, but some other browsers have them built-in.
Haven't you cave dwellers heard of mouse gestures? New tab, close tab, back, forward, you can do any of those in a fraction of a second without taking your hand off the thing you use to browse the internet anyway (not that thing, the other thing).
Part of the problem is that some people assume the internet is a collection of static documents.
That's exactly what I was thinking. They could have made this a checkbox option in the settings page, but instead they removed the feature and then published an add-on to add it back in only 3 months later. All they had to do was add a checkbox and add an if statement into their key handler, that probably would have taken less than 3 months.
What's with all these AC FBI posts where you respond to yourself promoting your own posts? When did that start?
DuckDuckGo kind of sucks as a search engine, though. The results even on the first page are not always relevant.
How would that work? Does it require someone to read through the fine print of every offer presented in every story and manually tag whether or not that story contains US-only news? When The Guardian reports on a US-only story, it doesn't sound like that process can be reliably automated.
Gawker was largely a trash publication and provided little value journalistically.
What, are you trying to suggest that a video of Hulk Hogan having sex doesn't serve the public interest?
Yes, I believe it. Why would it be so unbelievable, because all of the hardware and software that any organization, including the NSA, runs is so bulletproof? There are bugs in nearly every internet-facing device or application, and sometimes those bugs allow access to people that shouldn't have it.
The real interesting thing about this is that this leak may cause all or most of the affected vendors to patch the bugs that the NSA has been exploiting.
preventing them even attempting a crash landing
Don't worry, no one has ever failed to make an attempted crash landing.
You sound like you know something, what are you doing on Slashdot?
How does this airship stay on the ground? In the videos I've seen it doesn't look like there are any cables, does it have a way of adjusting lift or do they try to make it more or less neutrally bouyant?
Wow, look at that, once I call you out, again, here you come, posting as yourself for the first time in a week. You are easier to manipulate than Pavlov's dog, you know that? You're going to sit there and act like other random people would troll through my comments in other unrelated stories just to post support for you. No one does that on Slashdot man, you're the only one. It's clear to anyone paying attention that you are the only person who ever posts in support of yourself. Your attempts to hide behind AC posts are as transparent as your stupid claims of $100 forum posts and suggestions to programs that were rejected, as if those are things that a professional programmer would be proud of. You're not a professional programmer though, that's why you're proud of them.
I don't need defenders really.
And you don't have any, either. It's just you and your head man, that's all you've got. You're pathetic. You're someone who decided to pick up programming as a hobby or something like that after failing at whatever else you tried before that, and now you're trying to claim all of these gold paper stars as achievements that a normal programmer would be proud of. Your achievements are bullshit, your accomplishments are overstated. You've been shown over and over that you lie, embellish, exaggerate, and use smoke and mirrors to make it seem like you've done more than you have. Over, and over, and over you do this, and then you try to deflect attention away from yourself by accusing other people of exactly what you're guilty of. You call me a blowhard, anonymous, butthurt, that people are laughing at me, etc, it is a classic projection defense. You are projecting everything that you are guilty of onto me, because you don't have any other argument or any other tactic left after your bullshit has been exposed for what it is. It's obvious that you are full of shit because you're more than happy to talk about things that you literally know nothing about as if they're facts, that's what a bullshit artist does (you must be a Trump fan). I'm 6'1", 200lbs, but you're trying to try to make me angry by calling me fat? You're only proving that you're an idiot who will speak about things that they know nothing about as if they're facts. That's why your opinion means nothing, why your accomplishments are bullshit, and why you have no reputation for anything other than lies, deception, and evasion. You can project and accuse others of your faults all you want, but no one here is laughing at me. Not at me, big guy.
You obviously feel defeated, based on how easy it is for me to control your behavior at this point just by calling you out on your bullshit. You have nothing else for me, I have no use for you, your entertainment value is ended. I've already exposed you for the bullshit artist you are, there's no reason to continue with you. Take care, have fun trolling my other unrelated comments trying to lash out. Remember to call me butthurt if it makes you feel better about yourself.
I know for a fact you're APK, and you know that too, and you know I'm right. You can lie all you want (what's the first rule when dealing with spammers?), but both of us know that's true for a fact. You have no supporters here who come to your defense. You want to know how I can prove that also? Because you break out the third-party posts whenever you lose an argument. Once you lose, all of a sudden, you have all these anonymous defenders. They only show up when you've lost and retreated and turn on your defense mechanism. You have no defenders when you're having an argument, there's no one there to back you up, but miraculously at the exact same time when you stop posting as yourself, all of these anonymous defenders swoop to your aid. It's not a coincidence, and if you think anyone is fooled by your bullshit then you're deluding yourself. I understand that delusion is part of your M.O., you've apparently managed to delude yourself by convincing yourself that making some changes to an application 16 years ago, being paid $100 for a forum post 8 years ago, creating an application that sorts text, and submitting a poop icon and other changes that got rejected are things that should go on your resume today. You've convinced yourself that those are all solid credentials for someone claiming to be a superior programmer, so you are clearly delusional, but don't assume that anyone else shares your fantasy.
Go back and look at that thread again. Here you post a comment referring to yourself in the third person. I reply to that, referring directly to you, and then you respond as yourself (wow, that's weird). Yeah, no way that first comment was from you, right? Must have been a third party. Then we go back and forth for a few posts, you throw out your sad list of "accomplishments", I expose them for the bullshit they are, you move on to try to attack my weight and other things that you have no knowledge of, all of that happens in one day, last Wednesday, a week ago. After you lose that battle in an embarrassing fashion and resort to personal attacks, you retreat and the next day you don't post at all, instead here come the "third party" posts. For some reason they were missing all of the previous day, but now that you get your ass handed to you you run away and here come the third parties that you want to claim aren't actually you. And you're still on it too, you still refuse to post as yourself and you still insist on claiming you're someone other than who you are, a week later. I don't really blame you though, if I just got exposed for being a loser I wouldn't want to be that person either, but like I said, just don't assume that anyone else is part of your fantasy world. You suck at hiding your identity, just like you suck at programming. If you want to prove me right, fine, let's break out another list of fantastic achievements of yours. Maybe we can list some issues of Nintendo Power that haven't been in print for 20 years, I bet that will be impressive.
The major difference between you and I is that you have made an attempt to prove your claims of being a superior programmer, but all of your claims have been shown to be bullshit. I haven't made any claims at all, but at least I haven't been shown to be a bullshit artist impostor. Go ahead, post again as a third party and claim it's not you, that totally helps prove that you are not a bullshit artist impostor.
I also find it endlessly amusing that if I use your initials too many times in one post, it hits the Slashdot lameness filter. An entire computer system knows you for what you are, and that's funny.
How I can prove that you know you lost our argument, in one easy step:
You immediately retreated, stopped posting as yourself, and pretended to be one or more other people instead of facing your embarrassment.
Not the actions of anyone who won anything. You know you lost, and you continue to illustrate it with each one of your stupid third party posts. You're proud of getting paid $100 for a forum post and submitting a multi-colored human shit icon which got rejected, those are your achievements. I called you out, you lost, you retreated. You ran away. There's a phrase I'm looking for there, you like to use, something about running away. Whatever, I don't have time for you any more.
I SAID GOOD DAY!
OK, APK, I'm going to humor you. I'm going to tell you this one more time. This time, I'll use capital letters and bold, because the other times I've told you this it hasn't sunk in to your goddamn thick skull, and you keep bringing it up over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and the only thing I know how to do to help you understand is to virtually shout it at you. I don't work with retards for a living, so I apologize if there is a more effective way to reach you that I'm just not aware of, but this is my limit and this is all I know.
So, here we go:
IN ORDER TO PROVE MY WORK I CANNOT REMAIN ANONYMOUS. I INTEND TO REMAIN ANONYMOUS, BECAUSE I GIVE A SHIT WAAAAY MORE ABOUT MAINTAINING MY ANONYMITY THAN PROVING ANYTHING TO SOMEONE WHOSE OPINION MEANS NOTHING TO ME. THEREFORE, I WILL NEVER PROVE ANY OF MY WORK TO YOU, AND I DON'T GIVE A SHIT IF YOU BELIEVE ME.
OK APK, if that hasn't sunk in yet then go ahead and read it another 10 times. In fact, print it out and use your paste to glue it to your computer screen, so that every time we have these conversations you can look at the answer that I have previously given instead of looking like a retard when you ask the same question again, OK? See, it's not that I "can't" prove anything to you, just that I am unwilling. I won't. I'm sorry that literally the only thing you have to say in your own defense is that I'm not willing to reveal who I am. It's really shitty for you that the only thing left is for you to point out the fact that I'm going to stay anonymous as if that's some negative on me instead of exactly what I want to happen, but I guess that's what happens when you make yourself out to be some big bad programmer but then don't have anything to show for it other than smoke and mirrors (hey, look, another phrase you can use 30 times over the next 10 comments). I'm sorry that you feel like the only thing you have left is to attack me instead of defend your own sad record.
Sorry big guy, but that's the way it is. Remember to put on your foam helmet if you leave the house.
You get nothing! You lose! Good day, sir!
I said good day!
Seriously man, what the fuck could possibly be wrong with the wiring in your head which causes you to ask the same exact question over and over and over, even though every time you ask it I give you the same answer? What the hell is wrong with you? Do you think it's going to be a different answer? APK, what's the definition of insanity?
No, I definitely "won" that debate, because I clearly exposed all of your bullshit for what it is. How can we tell that I won? Because ever since I exposed your shit you have refused to post as yourself, you are now only posting as some anonymous third-party supporter (I like how all of your "supporters" are always anonymous, by the way). Switching your persona and hiding behind a series of anonymous "third parties" as if they are anyone other than you is not a sign of victory. It means you lost so badly that you are actually embarrassed by it. And, you should be, because it's embarrassing for you. It makes you look like an idiot. But, seriously, keep on linking to that thread. Every time you pop up and try to challenge anyone on here I'll make sure to link to it as well.
Meanwhile, you really need to work on the pattern recognition in that poorly-written AI that you call an intellect. I called you out for using "in computing" all the time, and then you stopped using that, then I said you were like a roach and now you use that 3 times per comment to try and insult me (by the way, personal attacks against someone that you know nothing about are totally a fantastic way to win a debate and illustrate that you have an iron-clad argument). Maybe get an original thought in that 10cc 2-stroke engine that you call a brain. Here, now I'll call you a "shrub". Now you can use that word to insult me 3 times per comment for your next 10 comments, like you do with everything else. You don't have an original thought in your brain and you're going to suggest that you're a better programmer than anyone else.
Hold on, are you incapable of forming new thoughts or memories? Is that why you always parrot everything I say? Is that why I have to call you out to get you to stop using the same phrase over and over, as if you're trying to suggest that all of these different anonymous people use the same phrase that no one else uses in common speaking, and then they all stop using it at the same time? APK, is that why you keep asking me the same question over and over and over? It's because you're incapable of original thought or forming new memories, isn't it? You actually think that you've never asked me that question before, and you have no recollection of every time I've answered it. What happened to make you that way, were you born like that or did you have to suffer some sort of severe head trauma to achieve that state? Is that also why you're alone, does that limit your ability to carry on any kind of functional human relationship? I've seen the movie Memento, are you like that guy? Do you have some post-it note in front of you that says "remember to ask AmicusNYCL why he doesn't give any information about who he is or what he does"? You should throw that note away, you've already asked that question about 100 times and I've answered it about 100 times. You should find a new question. Replace that post-it note with one that says "why am I like this?"
Suspect all you want, APK, it's never stopped you from being wrong before.
This pitiful conversation has run its course. You admitted defeat days ago. I'll accept and move on.
You're an idiot, APK. You have been, you still are, you always will be. Look at you man, you're in your 50s, alone, proud of your worthless "accomplishments", and acting like you're someone else all while trying to argue that you're better at programming than someone you know nothing about. This is the definition of pathetic. Hey, tell us about your NCAA days again, maybe you can be proud of that.
I mean, look at this bullshit:
Everyone laughing at your antics isn't apk. I doubt he's here at all because once he does that to you he can leave knowing he's exposed a nobody like you.
Are you fucking kidding me? Look at yourself. One of us here is definitely a loser, APK. It's not me, though.
I feel bad for you. This is beyond sad. You should move on from this entire argument and go do something that makes yourself happy. It's got to be better than sitting there posting that crap. You can type all you want, but you know that you're sitting there acting like someone else, because no one else is coming to defend you. Turn the computer off, go outside, go to the park, maybe go to a bar or restaurant and find someone to talk to. Seriously, anything has got to be better than this. Maybe you haven't hit rock bottom yet, but I hope you have a clear view about how you're choosing to spend your time.
No, you dumb bitch, that doesn't show me being exposed as anything. What that shows is that you think that suggesting improvements to a piece of software 16 years ago, and getting paid $100 for a forum post 8 years ago, are things that should be on the top of your resume today. What that shows is you hold up gold stars from your teacher and use those to argue that you're a superior programmer. And you do all of this without even knowing anything about my own work. Seriously, what kind of professional argues that they are better at their job than someone that they know nothing about? In short, it shows you for the bullshit artist that you are. Really though, keep posting that link.