Yes, because without the police the Rodney Kings of this world could just keep on robbing stores and beating their wives.
IIRC it was the liberal media that spun that whole fiasco in to a "racial" issue, and the police really were just beating the hell out of someone that was resisting arrest. At least that's what the facts would lead me to believe.
"When I grow up I want to work at the Walmart as a cashier"
You've never been to Franlin City, VA have you? They just recently (within the past 6 years or so) got a Wal-Mart built there. It's nicer than some malls I've seen. The whole town closed down (I believe schools included) for the grand opening. It was that big of a deal.
Of course when you consider the other alternatives for work in that area, peanut farming or moving away, I suppose the Wal-Mart fills a niche for those not strong enough for farm work and not smart enough to move away.
Or you (yes you personally urbanrealist, slashdot user #669888) could run for city council, state legislature, US House of Reprsentatives or US Senate.
I'm not disagreeing with you, I too feel America is suffering from unrepresentative government. The last time I checked I wasn't an old white guy that made millions of dollars a year off my investments. I believe a good portion of our federal government could meet that description.
My solution, I'm trying to stir up interest at local universities to endorse me as an independent candidate for the 2009 elections. I'm going to attempt my part to make a change. I'm going to tell the people that I don't have any interests of my own to protect, I only care about seeing things made better. Seeing that if you write to me saying "I'd like you to consider voting on this issue in this way" You'll get my personal response as to how I plan to vote, and my reasons why. I'd much rather see a representative that actually engages their constituents in intelligent discussion on issues before jumping off and raving about trucks and tubes.
However, I doubt that I will get very far because I'm not a very 'safe' candidate. I'm volatile and likely to do what's good for individual citizens and not what's necessarily good for 'America the Homeland' or corporate America.
Honestly though, what would make me happiest is to see the United States actually end up where we should be, a nation of 'United States' with the emphasis on the state as the soverign body and not on the federal government. Unfortunately that viewpoint is oft related with racism and other unpleasant viewpoints due to the Civil War so I'm pretty much doomed from the get go. But don't let that stop you, if you want to make a difference and you can't get your voice heard by those that matter, then become that person that matters.
Just a thought, do what you will but please don't harm me.
And I'm sure all those Jews sitting around in Auschwitz and Buchenwald that had their lives made shittier suffered so that some great societal change could be made?
The civil rights movement affected change because BASIC HUMAN RIGHTS were being denied. If I was being told, you have to wait in this really long ass line because your white, and all the people of asian, african and latino descent can use this reallly fast checkout system over here, then maybe we'd agree on something. However this is about checking-out at the grocery store, and people protesting the "dehumanizing" self-checkout machine. Find some other cause to champion hippies, they haven't legalised pot yet. Start there.
Being the tin-foil hat wearer that I am, I'd say that the french are going to ask you to install some software on your PC giving them (the French Government) the fattest, biggest zombie net in the world. Fuck with France, kiss your bandwidth good by as you get DDoS'ed in to a black hole.
I wouldn't try to do this in America. Any group action that tries to make any sort of societal change is likely to be labelled as terrorism. I suppose in some twisted and sick way this is terrorism of a sort against the store. They're afraid of you causing their customers to leave because you're clogging up their machines, so they make changes (preferably it would be to have people like yourself be requried to pay for your purchase or to restock the shelves yourself as most places only have 'stockers' working three days a week.)
I never understood why people in America feel they have to make someone else's life shittier just to express some point. How about you write a letter, and you get all your friends to write letters, talking about how displeased you are with the service you received. Likely you will be sent some coupons, and maybe exact some changes. However causing me to have to either A) Wait in a regular check-out lane to make my purchase or B) wait for some minimum wage employee to clean up your mess so that I can use the self-check out will likely lead to me becoming very unhappy with your 'cause' and doing my best to see you all arrested for disturbing the peace.
If Dual booting is for people who can't really decide why they bought a PC in the first place, what is slashdot for? Bragging about how cool you are to other nerds because you have successfully installed a modchip in your rectum and then overclocked it so that your poo is better than everyone elses?
I'm sorry to pick on your for this, but an "emo" is not a thing, it's a state of being. A human is "emo" when they are experiencing some sort of emotion. "Emo" describes a genre of music, it's an adjective not a noun.
What you really wanted to say was "Is that the sound of a million emo kids and scenesters all screaming out 'Why me god, why?!?!?' Only to be silenced moments later by their incessant need for self-mutilation and self-loathing."
In which case the answer would've been "Yes." However, as it stands, you just look like a jackass for trying to be cool. Just because the frat kids at your school use "emo" as a noun, doesn't mean it has any real meaning in the context that they pretend it does.
Just because you have the attention span of a retarded gold fish doesn't mean MST3k sucks, it's just not for you.
However I believe your affection for Adult Swim is misplaced, you can only find those shows funny if you have suffered severe brain trauma or you're abusing some schedule IV substances.
That's because the user will be spending 99% of their time updating to the latest versions of the software packages and being told to RTFM by tech support when it won't turn on.
But at least it isn't running windows, that would scare me.
While I knew about this last week (whats with the lag on stories guys?!)
You know, most stories you see here on slashdot are submitted by people like you. If you wanted to see this appear on slashdot when you knew of it last week you could have submitted an article link and summary yourself.
There's nothing wrong with Iowa persay. I just don't like corn. Corn scares me, all those ears and such. Did I mention they have a lot of corn in Iowa? Corn. Oh, plus the people there tend toward zealotry and extreme right-wing views, but that afflicts most of the mid-west and southern states. "Gotta hate them queers, it just ain't right" as my bigotted grandmother would say.
As opposed to people that don't regularly pirate movies as it is? The fact of the matter is there will also be a point where the information can be copied and distributed. The best they can hope for is to make it more difficult for 14 year old Jimmy to do.
Plain and simple fact is if Microsoft could compete with the usefulness of a solid Linux distro their product would speak for itself.
Show me an FOSS replacement for Active Directory that intergates well across the enteroprise and then I'll believe you know what it is you're talking about.
If computer software has managed to find a way of requiring serial numbers, I'm sure a proprietary media player could be developed that requires something similar for each movie.
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Yes, because without the police the Rodney Kings of this world could just keep on robbing stores and beating their wives.
IIRC it was the liberal media that spun that whole fiasco in to a "racial" issue, and the police really were just beating the hell out of someone that was resisting arrest. At least that's what the facts would lead me to believe.
I'd like to see him just curl up in a ball and roll away (think sonic the hedgehog), or levitate. Either way would be cool.
It be neat to have to use a federally issued passport in order to gain access to the internet.
I make spaghetti sauce because the guy selling tomatos understood what I wanted. What do you get besides funny looks?
crap, that's supposed to be 'Franklin City'.
Preview is not my friend.
"When I grow up I want to work at the Walmart as a cashier"
You've never been to Franlin City, VA have you? They just recently (within the past 6 years or so) got a Wal-Mart built there. It's nicer than some malls I've seen. The whole town closed down (I believe schools included) for the grand opening. It was that big of a deal.
Of course when you consider the other alternatives for work in that area, peanut farming or moving away, I suppose the Wal-Mart fills a niche for those not strong enough for farm work and not smart enough to move away.
Or you (yes you personally urbanrealist, slashdot user #669888) could run for city council, state legislature, US House of Reprsentatives or US Senate.
I'm not disagreeing with you, I too feel America is suffering from unrepresentative government. The last time I checked I wasn't an old white guy that made millions of dollars a year off my investments. I believe a good portion of our federal government could meet that description.
My solution, I'm trying to stir up interest at local universities to endorse me as an independent candidate for the 2009 elections. I'm going to attempt my part to make a change. I'm going to tell the people that I don't have any interests of my own to protect, I only care about seeing things made better. Seeing that if you write to me saying "I'd like you to consider voting on this issue in this way" You'll get my personal response as to how I plan to vote, and my reasons why. I'd much rather see a representative that actually engages their constituents in intelligent discussion on issues before jumping off and raving about trucks and tubes.
However, I doubt that I will get very far because I'm not a very 'safe' candidate. I'm volatile and likely to do what's good for individual citizens and not what's necessarily good for 'America the Homeland' or corporate America.
Honestly though, what would make me happiest is to see the United States actually end up where we should be, a nation of 'United States' with the emphasis on the state as the soverign body and not on the federal government. Unfortunately that viewpoint is oft related with racism and other unpleasant viewpoints due to the Civil War so I'm pretty much doomed from the get go. But don't let that stop you, if you want to make a difference and you can't get your voice heard by those that matter, then become that person that matters.
Just a thought, do what you will but please don't harm me.
And I'm sure all those Jews sitting around in Auschwitz and Buchenwald that had their lives made shittier suffered so that some great societal change could be made?
The civil rights movement affected change because BASIC HUMAN RIGHTS were being denied. If I was being told, you have to wait in this really long ass line because your white, and all the people of asian, african and latino descent can use this reallly fast checkout system over here, then maybe we'd agree on something. However this is about checking-out at the grocery store, and people protesting the "dehumanizing" self-checkout machine. Find some other cause to champion hippies, they haven't legalised pot yet. Start there.
Being the tin-foil hat wearer that I am, I'd say that the french are going to ask you to install some software on your PC giving them (the French Government) the fattest, biggest zombie net in the world. Fuck with France, kiss your bandwidth good by as you get DDoS'ed in to a black hole.
Look at myspace, that's built on ColdFusion and my god, what a mess.
I wouldn't try to do this in America. Any group action that tries to make any sort of societal change is likely to be labelled as terrorism. I suppose in some twisted and sick way this is terrorism of a sort against the store. They're afraid of you causing their customers to leave because you're clogging up their machines, so they make changes (preferably it would be to have people like yourself be requried to pay for your purchase or to restock the shelves yourself as most places only have 'stockers' working three days a week.)
I never understood why people in America feel they have to make someone else's life shittier just to express some point. How about you write a letter, and you get all your friends to write letters, talking about how displeased you are with the service you received. Likely you will be sent some coupons, and maybe exact some changes. However causing me to have to either A) Wait in a regular check-out lane to make my purchase or B) wait for some minimum wage employee to clean up your mess so that I can use the self-check out will likely lead to me becoming very unhappy with your 'cause' and doing my best to see you all arrested for disturbing the peace.
-Everett, no longer a grocery store employee.
If Dual booting is for people who can't really decide why they bought a PC in the first place, what is slashdot for? Bragging about how cool you are to other nerds because you have successfully installed a modchip in your rectum and then overclocked it so that your poo is better than everyone elses?
I'm sorry to pick on your for this, but an "emo" is not a thing, it's a state of being. A human is "emo" when they are experiencing some sort of emotion. "Emo" describes a genre of music, it's an adjective not a noun.
What you really wanted to say was "Is that the sound of a million emo kids and scenesters all screaming out 'Why me god, why?!?!?' Only to be silenced moments later by their incessant need for self-mutilation and self-loathing."
In which case the answer would've been "Yes." However, as it stands, you just look like a jackass for trying to be cool. Just because the frat kids at your school use "emo" as a noun, doesn't mean it has any real meaning in the context that they pretend it does.
Just because you have the attention span of a retarded gold fish doesn't mean MST3k sucks, it's just not for you.
However I believe your affection for Adult Swim is misplaced, you can only find those shows funny if you have suffered severe brain trauma or you're abusing some schedule IV substances.
HESH WANTS MARRIED SEX!
I believe it would also be fairly protected as parody.
-Everett
I wonder if something akin to a Faraday cage could block the transporter beam.
since it runs Linux, it can do no harm.
That's because the user will be spending 99% of their time updating to the latest versions of the software packages and being told to RTFM by tech support when it won't turn on.
But at least it isn't running windows, that would scare me.
While I knew about this last week (whats with the lag on stories guys?!)
You know, most stories you see here on slashdot are submitted by people like you. If you wanted to see this appear on slashdot when you knew of it last week you could have submitted an article link and summary yourself.
So what you're really trying to say is IRC FTW.
There's nothing wrong with Iowa persay. I just don't like corn. Corn scares me, all those ears and such. Did I mention they have a lot of corn in Iowa? Corn. Oh, plus the people there tend toward zealotry and extreme right-wing views, but that afflicts most of the mid-west and southern states. "Gotta hate them queers, it just ain't right" as my bigotted grandmother would say.
We already have a cure for being human, it's called Law School.
Your parents, they gave you the neophilia genes in the first place. In fact, I think I might sue your parents too.
As opposed to people that don't regularly pirate movies as it is? The fact of the matter is there will also be a point where the information can be copied and distributed. The best they can hope for is to make it more difficult for 14 year old Jimmy to do.
Plain and simple fact is if Microsoft could compete with the usefulness of a solid Linux distro their product would speak for itself.
Show me an FOSS replacement for Active Directory that intergates well across the enteroprise and then I'll believe you know what it is you're talking about.
If computer software has managed to find a way of requiring serial numbers, I'm sure a proprietary media player could be developed that requires something similar for each movie.